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authorsmcv <smcv@web>2015-03-01 11:26:20 -0400
committeradmin <admin@branchable.com>2015-03-01 11:26:20 -0400
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clarify that --setup changes the default verb
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@@ -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
@@ -23,7 +24,9 @@ These options control the mode that ikiwiki operates in.
* --refresh
- Refresh the wiki, updating any changed pages.
+ Refresh the wiki, updating any changed pages. This is the default
+ behavior if no other mode action is specified (but note that --setup is
+ a mode action, and has different default behavior).
* --rebuild
@@ -31,8 +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.
@@ -360,10 +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