X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/8eec88bd7ccd4b900e96bc2db0c29224dcf5399b..e4e7d7381d50608aacfbefba054a2ff4f516625a:/doc/usage.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/usage.mdwn b/doc/usage.mdwn index 44d32a01d..4bfe2312c 100644 --- a/doc/usage.mdwn +++ b/doc/usage.mdwn @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ ikiwiki - a wiki compiler ikiwiki [options] source destination -ikiwiki --setup setupfile +ikiwiki --setup setupfile [options] # DESCRIPTION @@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ ikiwiki --setup setupfile `source` in the [[ikiwiki/Markdown]] language (or others), and writes it out to `destination`. -Note that most options can be shortened to single letters, and boolean -flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose. +Note that most options can be shortened to single letters, boolean +flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose, and +options such as --verbose can also be spelled like -verbose. # MODE OPTIONS @@ -24,7 +25,8 @@ These options control the mode that ikiwiki operates in. * --refresh Refresh the wiki, updating any changed pages. This is the default - behavior so you don't normally need to specify it. + behavior if no other mode action is specified (but note that --setup is + a mode action, and has different default behavior). * --rebuild @@ -32,8 +34,8 @@ These options control the mode that ikiwiki operates in. * --setup setupfile - The default action when --setup is specified is to automatically generate - wrappers for a wiki based on data in a setup file, and rebuild the wiki. + Load options from the given setup file. If no other mode action is specified, + generate wrappers and rebuild the wiki, as if --rebuild --wrappers were used. If you only want to build any changed pages, you can use --refresh with --setup. @@ -253,8 +255,10 @@ also be configured using a setup file. Specifies a username of a user (or, if openid is enabled, an openid) who has the powers of a wiki admin. Currently allows locking of any page, - and [[banning|banned_users]] users; other powers may be added later. - May be specified multiple times for multiple admins. + and [[banning|banned_users]] users, as well as powers granted by + enabled plugins (such as [[moderating comments|plugins/moderatedcomments]] + and [[plugins/websetup]]. May be specified multiple times for multiple + admins. For an openid user specify the full URL of the login, including "http://". @@ -359,10 +363,20 @@ also be configured using a setup file. * ikiwiki --setup my.setup --refresh --wrappers - Refresh the wiki, including regnerating all wrapper programs, + Refresh the wiki, including regenerating all wrapper programs, but do not rebuild all pages. Useful if you have changed something in the setup file that does not need a full wiki rebuild to update - all pages, but that you want to immediatly take effect. + all pages, but that you want to immediately take effect. + +* ikiwiki --rebuild srcdir destdir + + Use srcdir as source and build HTML in destdir, without using a + setup file. + +* ikiwiki srcdir destdir + + Use srcdir as source to update changed pages' HTML in destdir, + without using a setup file. # ENVIRONMENT