Hello,
I am trying to make a local mirror of my (currently empty) Branchable site, following approximately ikiwiki's tips/laptop wiki with git.
While wondering how to maintain similar setups on both sides, I noticed the setup branch of the git repository in which Branchable wikis are stored. I checked it out on my local computer, and made a local branch where a couple of file paths are modified and the branchable modules disabled. I was hoping that I would be able to merge from the remote branch whenever I change the setup on Branchable.
Unfortunatlely, setup changes are not automatically commited. For instance, I just added fr|Français as a slave language for the po plugin, but it is still unchanged in the git repository: http://source.po-test.branchable.com/?p=source.git;a=history;f=ikiwiki.setup;hb=setup.
I could not figure out by myself if it is a bug or a security feature…
Have a nice day,
-- Charles
That's a good use of the setup branch! We should have a tutorial for checking out a Branchable site and setting up a local branch on a laptop like that. As you found, the setup branch contains a copy of ikiwiki.setup, as well as any ssh authorized_keys and possibly other configuration files. For security, it is a read-only branch.
Changes to the wiki setup were only committed to the setup branch daily, as part of our backup process.
Hey, I've changed it so they're committed immediately now. Enjoy!