aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/doc/bugs/messed_up_repository.mdwn
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/bugs/messed_up_repository.mdwn')
-rw-r--r--doc/bugs/messed_up_repository.mdwn14
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/messed_up_repository.mdwn b/doc/bugs/messed_up_repository.mdwn
index 10bf5c35d..cb8aa875a 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/messed_up_repository.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/messed_up_repository.mdwn
@@ -3,3 +3,17 @@ I messed up my local clone of my repository.
It appears that there is a special clone, which contains .ikiwiki, local.css, recentchanges, and the like.
How can I create a new version of this clone?
+
+> No, there's the srcdir, which ikiwiki populates with some of those files
+> when run. Notably the .ikiwiki directory and all its contents, and the
+> recentchanges directory and its contents. But not local.css.
+>
+> If you've lost .ikiwiki and it contained user registration info
+> (passwords etc), you've lost that info. Everything else can be
+> regenerated by running `ikiwiki -setup your.setup`
+>
+> If you still have .ikiwiki, but the git clone is messed up somehow, you
+> can just make a new clone and move .ikiwiki into it before running
+> ikiwiki. --[[Joey]]
+
+[[!tag done]]