[[!meta author="""http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/"""]] [[!meta authorurl="""http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/"""]] [[!meta title="""change to forum/Blog_posting_times_and_ikiwiki_state on ikiwiki"""]] [[!meta permalink="http://ikiwiki.info/recentchanges/#change-c8537b41320e1f38b2369f24431423dfb2f14b15"]] <div id="change-c8537b41320e1f38b2369f24431423dfb2f14b15" class="metadata"> <span class="desc"><br />Changed pages:</span> <span class="pagelinks"> <a href="http://git.ikiwiki.info/?p=ikiwiki;a=blobdiff;f=doc/forum/Blog_posting_times_and_ikiwiki_state.mdwn;h=0c1da5b97bc54f0c3e04b899693e70a504d2818f;hp=3e6c23241c525fb70a47afa7f14ec695c27a766f;hb=c8537b41320e1f38b2369f24431423dfb2f14b15;hpb=23e3e5f15e61639ccba4a7dfbab11d6fe4b9f047" title="diff" rel="nofollow">[[diff|wikiicons/diff.png]]</a><a href="http://ikiwiki.info/ikiwiki.cgi?page=forum%2FBlog_posting_times_and_ikiwiki_state&do=goto" rel="nofollow">forum/Blog posting times and ikiwiki state</a> </span> <span class="desc"><br />Changed by:</span> <span class="committer"> <a href="http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">smcv</a> </span> <span class="desc"><br />Commit type:</span> <span class="committype">web</span> <span class="desc"><br />Date:</span> <span class="changedate"><span class="relativedate" title="Thu, 04 Nov 2010 06:58:53 -0400">06:58:53 11/04/10</span></span> <span class="desc"><br /></span> </div> <span class="revert"> <a href="http://ikiwiki.info/ikiwiki.cgi?rev=c8537b41320e1f38b2369f24431423dfb2f14b15&do=revert" title="revert" rel="nofollow">[[revert|wikiicons/revert.png]]</a> </span> <div class="changelog"> </div> <div class="diff"> <pre> diff --git a/doc/forum/Blog_posting_times_and_ikiwiki_state.mdwn b/doc/forum/Blog_posting_times_and_ikiwiki_state.mdwn index 3e6c232..0c1da5b 100644 --- a/doc/forum/Blog_posting_times_and_ikiwiki_state.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/Blog_posting_times_and_ikiwiki_state.mdwn @@ -17,3 +17,12 @@ What can I do? Is it a spectacularly bad idea to include the ikiwiki state file in my cloned repo (I suspect it is). What else could be done? Can I disable pagestate somehow or force ikiwiki to always use git commit times for Posted times? +> Have you tried running ikiwiki with the `--gettime` option on your laptop, +> to force it to retrieve initial commit times from git? You should only +> need to do that once, and it'll be cached in the pagestate thereafter. +> +> Because that functionality is slow on every supported VCS except git, +> ikiwiki tries to avoid using it unless it's really needed. [[rcs]] +> lists it as "fast" for git, though, so depending how fast it really is +> and how large your wiki is, you might be able to get away with running +> ikiwiki with `--gettime` all the time? --[[smcv]] </pre> </div> <!-- c8537b41320e1f38b2369f24431423dfb2f14b15 -->