Clean compile

[auxbuss]

Hi,

Noob here. I noticed after checking out down the git tree of my
project that a nanoc compile doesn't remove redundant pages. i.e.
pages created since the current checkout commit. This is a bit of a
problem when testing. I understand that --force does what it does, but
is there an option to clean output/ prior to compiling?

Ta,
Marc

[Denis Defreyne]

Hi,

nanoc opts for a non-destructive approach, which means that stray files will remain in the output directory. Backwards compatibility is one of the reasons for this: storing files not managed by nanoc in the output directory used to be a recommended approach, and changing nanoc's behaviour to delete stray files would result in data loss.

The nanoc site has a rake task for removing stray files. Check out http://projects.stoneship.org/hg/sites-nanoc/file/ca4aa376dcb7/tasks/clean.rake. Alternatively, you could delete the output/ directory and recompile, but this would probably result in unnecessary recompiles. Come to think of it, a built-in command that does exactly this would probably be useful.

Cheers

Denis

Op 6 mei 2011 06:57 schreef "auxbuss" <aux...@gmail.com> het volgende:

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