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I want to collect common problems and their solutions when using Ikiwiki with Git here. Nothing here yet though, so feel free to add...

Well, I have a question. :-)

If I follow the instructions, I get a bare $REPOSITORY and a $SRCDIR that is cloned off of it. Web edits change the SRCDIR and ikiwiki automatically pushes to origin, which updates REPOSITORY. But the instructions say not to clone from SRCDIR; so I clone from REPOSITORY. Now if I manually edit a file and push the commit, it goes to REPOSITORY. The wiki isn't updated.

Seems like REPOSITORY needs a post-receive hook that cd's to SRCDIR and does a git pull, and manually triggers ikiwiki. Which seems very messy.

Am I doing something wrong? --[[Joey]]

Hmm, perhaps I installed the wrapper to the wrong place? I had thought it would go in $SRCDIR/.git/hooks/post-commit, but on second read, I see that [[setup]] says it should be $REPOSITORY/hooks/post-update

That seems to have sorted it. Based on [[this|rcs/git/discussion]], I'm not the only one to trip over how to do this. --[[Joey]]