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.
* 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
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