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It would be nice to be able to override a single template without keeping a
private copy of the entire template directory.
a setup option like
templatedirs => [ "my/dir", "/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates" ]
ought to do the trick.
> Now that I look at the source, I see that ikiwiki already falls back to the
> global dir when it cannot find a template. For me, this is good enough.
> And it is even documented in the man page. Sigh. I guess this could be
> considered [[done]].
I have a use case for this, a site composed of blogs and wikis, templates divided in three categories : common, blog and wiki. The only solution I found is maintaining hard links, being able to have multiple template dirs would obviously be better. -- Changaco
> [[plugins/underlay]] used to allow adding extra templatedirs, but Joey
> removed that functionality when he made templates search the wiki's
> own `templates` directory.
>
> You can get a 3-level hierarchy like this:
>
> * instance-specific overrides: $srcdir/templates
> * common to the entire site: a directory that is the value of all
> instances' `templatedir` parameters
> * common to every ikiwiki in the world: /usr/share/ikiwiki/templates
> (implicitly searched)
>
> (by "instance" I mean an instance of ikiwiki - a .setup file, basically.)
>
> For a more complex hierarchy you'd need the old [[plugins/underlay]]
> functionality, i.e. you'd need to (ask Joey to) revert the patch that
> removed it. For instance, if anyone has a hierarchy like this, then
> they need the old functionality back in order to split the template
> search path for the things marked `(???)`:
>
> every ikiwiki in the world (/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates)
> \--- your site (???)
> \--- your blogs (???)
> \--- travel blog ($srcdir/templates)
> \--- code blog ($srcdir/templates)
> \--- your wikis (???)
> \--- travel wiki ($srcdir/templates)
> \--- code wiki ($srcdir/templates)
>
> This looks pretty hypothetical to me, though...
> --[[smcv]]
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