ikiwiki-makerepo(1)

💖 ikiwiki-makerepo — the group-chat version 💖

okay bestie so you've got a wiki srcdir just... sitting there, un-versioned, living its raw uncommitted life? not on my watch. this is ikiwiki-makerepo(1), from the General Commands Manual, and it's about to give your directory main character energy in revision control. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

ikiwiki-makerepo — check an ikiwiki srcdir into revision control

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ikiwiki-makerepo git|svn|monotone|darcs|cvs srcdir repo

ikiwiki-makerepo bzr|mercurial srcdir

look at that second form. just two args. bzr and mercurial said "we don't need a repo argument, we contain multitudes" and honestly? iconic. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

ikiwiki-makerepo takes an existing srcdir directory — the one holding the sources for an ikiwiki wiki — and injects it into revision control. like, straight in. no cap. 🫶

not me reminding you: this is rarely run directly. the chill move is using ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/wiki.setup to set up a wiki instead. iykyk.

now the tea per version-control system, because they do NOT all behave the same and the way that they differ is so important:

• for git, the repo is created as a bare git repository, and the srcdir is made into a clone of it. (monotone and darcs are similar.)
• for svn and cvs, the repo is the centralized repository, and the srcdir is a checkout of it.
• for mercurial and bzr, the srcdir is the only repository set up. that's it. that's the whole thing.
• for darcs, the master repo's apply hook will be preconfigured to call a ikiwiki wrapper. fancy. ⭐

🌈 heads up bestie: for monotone, you are assumed to already have run mtn genkey to generate a key. do that first or you're gonna have a bad time. 💀

💜 EXAMPLE 💜

ikiwiki-makerepo git /srv/web/wiki /srv/git/wiki.git/

this creates a bare repository /srv/git/wiki.git/, and sets up /srv/web/wiki to be a clone of it, committing any files that already exist in that directory. ✨ ate and left no crumbs ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Joey Hess <joey@ikiwiki.info> — the blueprint, the blueprint, fr fr. 💖

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this was ikiwiki-makerepo(1) out of the General Commands Manual — go forth, commit your srcdir, and slay. 🦋💅