update ikiwiki-update-wikilist docs to suggest putting it in /etc/sudoers

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

diff --git a/doc/plugins/autoindex/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/autoindex/discussion.mdwn
index 2d6b6f1f0ad3b4e0944e4f81884442011765055f..76d09cd3c32bf8d5804d8454f99d256cc516980b 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/plugins/autoindex/discussion.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/autoindex/discussion.mdwn
@@ -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?
 
+> 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_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.
 
@@ -15,6 +22,8 @@ If you just don't want to clutter your git repo, below it's a patch does the fol
 
 * 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.
 
+[[!toggle id="patch-for-autoindex_commit" text="patch for autoindex_commit"]]
+[[!toggleable id="patch-for-autoindex_commit" text="""
 <pre>
 --- autoindex.pm.orig  2009-10-01 17:13:51.000000000 +0800
 +++ autoindex.pm       2009-10-01 17:21:09.000000000 +0800
@@ -58,6 +67,18 @@ If you just don't want to clutter your git repo, below it's a patch does the fol
                                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