review+ as far as I'm concerned

[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / todo / auto_rebuild_on_template_change.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/todo/auto_rebuild_on_template_change.mdwn b/doc/todo/auto_rebuild_on_template_change.mdwn
index 838d15c1a7ca60572551ba692cd366ec7092c654..ea990b877c20c9fa282bad08ff3e58f23f0dacb4 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/todo/auto_rebuild_on_template_change.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/auto_rebuild_on_template_change.mdwn
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ Note also that when using templates from "$srcdir/templates/", `no_includes`
 needs to be set. Currently this is done by the two plugins that use
 such templates, while includes are allowed in `templatedir`.
 
 needs to be set. Currently this is done by the two plugins that use
 such templates, while includes are allowed in `templatedir`.
 

+Have started working on this.
+[[!template id=gitbranch branch=origin/templatemove author="[[Joey]]"]]
+

 > But would this require that templates be parseable as wiki pages?  Because that would be a nuisance. --[[KathrynAndersen]]
 
 >> It would be better for them not to be rendered separately at all.
 > But would this require that templates be parseable as wiki pages?  Because that would be a nuisance. --[[KathrynAndersen]]
 
 >> It would be better for them not to be rendered separately at all.


@@ -59,3 +62,17 @@ such templates, while includes are allowed in `templatedir`.
 >>>>>> it'd either be necessary to make them be internal pages
 >>>>>> (templates/inlinepage._tmpl) or special-case them in some other way.
 >>>>>> --[[smcv]]
 >>>>>> it'd either be necessary to make them be internal pages
 >>>>>> (templates/inlinepage._tmpl) or special-case them in some other way.
 >>>>>> --[[smcv]]

+
+>>>>>>> In my branch, I left in support for the templatedir, and also
+>>>>>>> /usr/share/ikiwiki/templates. So, users do not have to put their
+>>>>>>> custom templates in templates/ in the wiki. If they do, 
+>>>>>>> the templates are copied to the destdir like other non-wiki page files
+>>>>>>> are. The templates are not wiki pages, except those used by a few
+>>>>>>> things like the [[plugins/template]] plugin.
+>>>>>>> 
+>>>>>>> That seems acceptable, since users probably don't need to modify
+>>>>>>> many templates, so the clutter is small. (Especially when
+>>>>>>> compared to the other clutter the basewiki always puts in destdir.)
+>>>>>>> This could be revisted later. --[[Joey]] 
+
+[[done]]