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[ikiwiki.git] / doc / plugins / autoindex / discussion.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/plugins/autoindex/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/autoindex/discussion.mdwn
index 82e30aab12bed80a7fdc91b17f76cc1baa625021..b09481cdc7800921433da69bb4cbed33c125b05e 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/plugins/autoindex/discussion.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/autoindex/discussion.mdwn
@@ -1,7 +1,82 @@
 Would it be possible to add an option to only generate the index files
 for the html output and not place the markdown files in the wiki source?
 
+> Or better still, add a mechanism for ikiwiki to hold transient source
+> pages in memory and render them as if they existed, without actually
+> writing them out, as [[JoeRayhawk]] suggests below? I think
+> add_autofile would be the way to do this.
+> I've added this to [[todo]] as [[todo/autoindex should use add__95__autofile]]
+> and [[todo/transient in-memory pages]]. --[[smcv]]
+
 The reason being that I have a lot of directories which need to be autoindexed,
 but I would prefer if the index files didn't clutter up my git repository.
 
 even without that feature the plugin is a great help, thanks
+
+
+------
+
+If you just don't want to clutter your git repo, below it's a patch does the following:
+
+* If you set autoindex_commit to 0 in your ikiwiki.setup file, we *do* place auto-generated markdown files in the **wiki source** but *not* in the **repo**
+
+* If you set autoindex_commit to 1 (this is the default), auto-generated index files will be put in the repo provided you enabled rcs backend.
+
+<pre>
+--- autoindex.pm.orig  2009-10-01 17:13:51.000000000 +0800
++++ autoindex.pm       2009-10-01 17:21:09.000000000 +0800
+@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@
+                       safe => 1,
+                       rebuild => 0,
+               },
++        autoindex_commit => {
++            type => 'boolean',
++            default => 1,
++            description => 'commit generated autoindex pages into RCS',
++            safe => 0,
++            rebuild => 0,
++        },
+ }
+ 
+ sub genindex ($) {
+@@ -25,7 +32,7 @@
+       my $template=template("autoindex.tmpl");
+       $template->param(page => $page);
+       writefile($file, $config{srcdir}, $template->output);
+-      if ($config{rcs}) {
++      if ($config{rcs} and $config{autoindex_commit}) {
+               IkiWiki::rcs_add($file);
+       }
+ }
+@@ -94,13 +101,13 @@
+       }
+       
+       if (@needed) {
+-              if ($config{rcs}) {
++              if ($config{rcs} and $config{autoindex_commit}) {
+                       IkiWiki::disable_commit_hook();
+               }
+               foreach my $page (@needed) {
+                       genindex($page);
+               }
+-              if ($config{rcs}) {
++              if ($config{rcs} and $config{autoindex_commit}) {
+                       IkiWiki::rcs_commit_staged(
+                               gettext("automatic index generation"),
+                               undef, undef);
+</pre>
+
+ 
+Warning:  I guess this patch may work, but I *haven't tested it yet*.  -- [[weakish]]
+
+------
+
+`autoindex_commit => 0` would be nice, but uncommited files are definitely not.
+<pre>
+remote: From /srv/git/test3
+remote:    3047077..1df636c  master     -> origin/master
+remote: error: Untracked working tree file 'test.mdwn' would be overwritten by merge.  Aborting
+remote: 'git pull --prune origin' failed:  at /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Plugin/git.pm line 201.
+</pre>
+
+It'd be nice if we were able to notice directories with no associated compilable markup files and compile a simple map directive straight to HTML without any intermediate markup file being involved at all. -- JoeRayhawk