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

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@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 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?
 
 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.
 
 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.
 


@@ -61,3 +68,15 @@ If you just don't want to clutter your git repo, below it's a patch does the fol
 
  
 Warning:  I guess this patch may work, but I *haven't tested it yet*.  -- [[weakish]]
 
  
 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