Feature request - nikola clone $source $dest

[Paraplegic Racehorse]

Suppose I have a test site all complete with the features and themes I want but I need to rid myself of all the test content. And/or I want to build another site with the same look-n-feel. Other use-cases also probably exist, but I can't think of them at the moment. Anyway, I want to create a fresh nikola site with all the configs of some other nikola site, but none of the content.

Here's a quick-n-dirty bash script to achieve it, but integrating something like this into the core would be fantastic.

code:bash

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#!/bin/bash

#

# USE

# $ nikolaclone [sourcedir] [targetdir]

#

nikola init -q $2

cp $1/conf.py $2/

cp $1/files/* $2/files/

if [ $1/plugins ]

then

cp -r $1/plugins $2/

fi

if [ $1/themes ]

then

cp -r $1/themes $2/

fi

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I'm happy to create an issue if you think it necessary.

An alternate would be to maintain a base test site, from which to deploy new features to existing sites, by changing 'cp -r' to 'cp -l' and working some magic in the existing conf.py with awk, but awk is way beyond my scripting level.

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