add --refresh and make it with with --setup

[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / usage.mdwn

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@@ -4,15 +4,14 @@ ikiwiki - a wiki compiler
 
 # SYNOPSIS
 
-ikiwiki [options] source templates destination
+ikiwiki [options] source destination
 
 ikiwiki --setup configfile
 
 # DESCRIPTION
 
 `ikiwiki` is a wiki compiler. It builds static html pages for a wiki, from
-`source` in the [[MarkDown]] language, using the specified html `templates`
-and writes it out to `destination`.
+`source` in the [[MarkDown]] language, and writes it out to `destination`.
 
 # OPTIONS
 
@@ -31,6 +30,23 @@ flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose.
 
   Force a rebuild of all pages.
 
+* --refresh
+
+  Refresh the wiki, updating any changes pages. This is the default
+  behavior so you don't normally need to specify it.
+
+* --fixctime
+
+  Pull last changed time for all pages out of the revision control system.
+  This rarely used option provides a way to get the real creation times of
+  items in weblogs, for example when building a wiki from a new subversion
+  checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow.
+
+* --templatedir
+
+  Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
+  Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`.
+
 * --wrapper [file]
 
   Generate a [[wrapper]] binary that is hardcoded to do action specified by
@@ -40,9 +56,7 @@ flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose.
   The wrapper is designed to be safely made suid and be run by untrusted
   users, as a [[Subversion]] [[post-commit]] hook, or as a [[CGI]].
 
-  Note that the generated wrapper will ignore all command line parameters
-  except for --params, which will make it print out the parameters it would
-  run ikiwiki with.
+  Note that the generated wrapper will ignore all command line parameters.
 
 * --wrappermode mode
 
@@ -62,6 +76,11 @@ flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose.
 
   By default, anonymous users cannot edit the wiki.
 
+* --rss, --norss
+
+  If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
+  a blog.
+
 * --cgi
 
   Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and supports editing pages, signing in, registration, and displaying [[RecentChanges]].
@@ -94,15 +113,21 @@ flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose.
   Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing.
   May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list.
 
+* --adminuser name
+
+  Specifies a username of a user who has the powers of a wiki admin.
+  Currently allows locking of any page, other powers may be added later.
+  May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
+
 * --setup configfile
 
   In setup mode, ikiwiki reads the config file, which is really a perl
-  program that can call ikiwiki internal functions. Uses of this are
-  various; the normal one is to automatically generate wrappers for a
-  wiki based on data in a config file.
-  
-  Note that the wiki will be (re)built as part of the setup process to
-  ensure that any changes take effect.
+  program that can call ikiwiki internal functions.
+
+  The default action when --setup is specified is to automatically generate
+  wrappers for a wiki based on data in a config file, and rebuild the wiki.
+  If you also pass the --refresh option, ikiwiki will instead just refresh
+  the wiki described in the setup file.
 
   [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.