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@@ -86,6 +86,14 @@ These options control the mode that ikiwiki operates in.
 
        ikiwiki --setup ~/ikiwiki.setup --render foo.mdwn
 
+* --post-commit
+
+  Run in post-commit mode, the same as if called by a [[post-commit]] hook.
+  This is probably only useful when using ikiwiki with a web server on one host
+  and a repository on another, to allow the repository's real post-commit
+  hook to ssh to the web server host and manually run ikiwiki to update
+  the web site.
+
 * --version
 
   Print ikiwiki's version number.
@@ -101,8 +109,8 @@ configuration options of their own.
 
 * --templatedir
 
-  Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in. Default
-  is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`, or another location as configured at
+  Specify the directory that the page [[templates|wikitemplates]] are stored in.
+  Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`, or another location as configured at
   build time. If the templatedir is changed, missing templates will still
   be searched for in the default location as a fallback.
 
@@ -117,7 +125,7 @@ configuration options of their own.
 
   Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
 
-* --notify
+* --notify, --no-notify
 
   Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running
   ikiwiki as a [[post-commit]] hook.
@@ -152,7 +160,8 @@ configuration options of their own.
 
   Specify the path inside your svn repository where the wiki is located.
   This defaults to `trunk`; change it if your wiki is at some other path
-  inside the repository.
+  inside the repository. If your wiki is rooted at the top of the repository,
+  set svnpath to "".
 
 * --rss, --norss
 
@@ -220,17 +229,33 @@ configuration options of their own.
   Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber"
   to do away with HTML sanitization.
 
+* --libdir directory
+
+  Makes ikiwiki look in the specified directory first, before the regular perl
+  library directories. For example, if you set libdir to "/home/you/.ikiwiki/",
+  you can install plugins in "/home/you/.ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugin/".
+
 * --discussion, --no-discussion
 
   Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of
   every page. The links are enabled by default.
 
+* --numbacklinks n
+
+  Controls how many backlinks should be displayed at the bottom of a page.
+  Excess backlinks will be hidden in a popup. Default is 10. Set to 0 to
+  disable this feature.
+
 * --userdir subdir
 
   Optionally, allows links to users of the wiki to link to pages inside a
   subdirectory of the wiki. The default is to link to pages in the toplevel
   directory of the wiki.
 
+* --htmlext html
+
+  Configures the extension used for generated html files. Default is "html".
+
 * --timeformat format
 
   Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the
@@ -244,6 +269,10 @@ configuration options of their own.
 
   Log to syslog(3).
 
+* --usedirs, --no-usedirs
+
+  Toggle creating output files named page/index.html (default) instead of page.html.
+
 * --w3mmode, --no-w3mmode
 
   Enable [[w3mmode]], which allows w3m to use ikiwiki as a local CGI script,
@@ -263,6 +292,13 @@ configuration options of their own.
   Subversion checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow. It is best used
   with --rebuild, to force ikiwiki to get the ctime for all pages.
 
+* --set var=value
+  
+  This allows setting an arbitrary configuration variable, the same as if it
+  were set via a configuration file. Since most options can be configured
+  using command-line switches, you will rarely need to use this, but it can be
+  useful for the odd option that lacks a command-line switch.
+
 # AUTHOR
 
 Joey Hess <joey@ikiwiki.info>