diff --git a/doc/forum/Need_something_more_powerful_than_Exclude/comment_7_e5d9fbf7e50476ce3a494541dd41d4d9._comment b/doc/forum/Need_something_more_powerful_than_Exclude/comment_7_e5d9fbf7e50476ce3a494541dd41d4d9._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..91ad02d14 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Need_something_more_powerful_than_Exclude/comment_7_e5d9fbf7e50476ce3a494541dd41d4d9._comment @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +[[!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]] +"""]]