main_page.md.dist is confusing

[nekketsuuu]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The file /wiki/main_page.md.dist can be confusing when creating a new wiki from scratch.

First, if we just copy the master branch of Drassil/git-wiki and build it with Jekyll, the root page / shows a HTML page generated by /README.md thanks to jekyll-readme-index. In order to configure, we can create /_config.yml and /wiki/main_page.md. Here, if we leave /wiki/main_page.md.dist by copying it to /wiki/main_page.md instead of renaming, the root page / is redirected to /main_page.md (not /main_page) and it is redirected again to an edit page to create /wiki/main_page.md. This is because jekyll-redirect-from handles not only a YAML header of /wiki/main_page.md but also that of /wiki/main_page.md.dist.

This confuses me. We must rename/delete /wiki/main_page.md.dist to construct a wiki correctly.

Describe the solution you'd like

In order to avoid this, how about renaming /wiki/main_page.md.dist to /wiki/main_page.md in this repository and writing quick start instructions on /wiki/main_page.md? I think it is better that we can construct the very first wiki by just forking the master branch. Also renaming /_config.yml.dist seems good if you want. I can send a pull request if needed.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Alternatively, write more install instructions or notes on README.md.

[Yehonal]

Yes, please rename both main_page and _config file, it can help us also with using git-wiki directly as "remote_theme" https://help.github.com/en/github/working-with-github-pages/adding-a-theme-to-your-github-pages-site-using-jekyll#adding-a-theme

Then, we should also update the installation instructions because now, thanks to github, you can install git-wiki in 3 ways:

1) forking 2) using repository template feature 3) using remote_theme (test needed)

[Yehonal]

I would also like to move gh-pages branch to another repo, in this way you don't even need to delete that branch

[Yehonal]

I'm trying to configure a test repository using remote_theme feature:

https://github.com/Drassil/git-wiki-demo/blob/master/_config.yml

but doesn't work at all, I cannot figure out why since git-wiki repository includes all needed files requested: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/themes/

[Yehonal]

I made some progresses :)

http://www.drassil.org/git-wiki-demo

Specifying layout in front matter it works! it's an example of git-wiki theme installed with remote_theme without forking/cloning

[Yehonal]

I've restructured the repositories in this way:

https://github.com/Drassil/git-wiki-theme (this is the repository that you can use with remote_theme or just fork/copy to create your wiki)

https://github.com/Drassil/git-wiki (this is documentation and demo repository, I preferred to keep the old name for it to avoid issues with search engine rankings etc.)

We can close this issue

[nekketsuuu]

Thanks for testing the remote_theme feature! However, moving Drassil/git-wiki to Drassil/git-wiki-theme and creating new Drassil/git-wiki is possibly a bad idea. It would have been better to leave Drassil/git-wiki and create a new repository, say Drassil/git-wiki-docs, for the old gh-pages branch. If we have cloned Drassil/git-wiki locally, we need to run git remote set-utl. Because of the new Drassil/git-wiki, git throws no error when running git pull even if not changing the remote url. Also, this renaming broke existing links on GitHub such as Drassil/git-wiki#73. What is done cannot be undone, but please confirm what happens if you overwrite an existing name in the future. Anyway, thanks again for improving the installation!