[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="https://launchpad.net/~beaufils"
 nickname="beaufils"
 subject="Does the exclude feature work at all?"
 date="2015-06-22T10:49:53Z"
 content="""
I am not sure if that is a bug or a feature, but it is annoying, definitively related to this post:

    $ ikiwiki --version
    ikiwiki version 3.20141016.2

    $ mkdir src ; echo A >src/get ; echo A >src/noget

    $ ikiwiki src out                          
    $ cat out/noget 
    A

    # Let's ask ikiwiki to forget noget
    $ ikiwiki src out --exclude noget          
    $ cat out/noget 
    A

    # No? Maybe with --rebuild?
    $ ikiwiki src out --exclude noget --rebuild
    $ cat out/noget 
    A

    # So let's remove it manually and try again
    $ rm out/noget 

    $ ikiwiki src out --exclude noget          
    $ cat out/noget
    cat: out/noget: No such file or directory

    # Hum are we sure it worked?
    $ ikiwiki src out --exclude noget --rebuild
    $ cat out/noget
    A

    # Nope :-(

I am really confused with the exclude feature and the way ikiwiki lookup files. Finally I tend to think this is a bug.

Is there a way to make ikiwiki consider that a file in the `srcdir` should not be present in the `destdir` and thus removed if present?

--[[bbb]]
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