diff --git a/dev/_posts/2023-01-12-non-repo-static-content.md b/dev/_posts/2023-01-12-non-repo-static-content.md index bbaf5a7..146933b 100644 --- a/dev/_posts/2023-01-12-non-repo-static-content.md +++ b/dev/_posts/2023-01-12-non-repo-static-content.md @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ The nice thing about Jekyll is it's a satic site generator and works after hours # popd ``` + The problem I was having is if a directory already existed; nothing would symlink. pax solved the problem, except pax copied data. I didn't need the redundancy. I'm getting ready to put another jekyll blog on another domain, so I decided I should fix this once and for all. So here's the new hacky script: @@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ done ln -s $WWW_STATIC/* $PUBLIC_WWW/ ``` + This is called as a seperate script in the githook that runs whenever I push a new post (or change) to the repository. It runs after site generation naturally. It gets a list of existing directories from the static directory; and if the directory exists, symlinks all the files in to it. It then goes back and runs a generic symlink of everything. It works well enough, with the cavet that it will generate a "file exists" error. It's non-fatal though.