Add a function to clean org-static-blog-publish-directory

[bastibe]

Could you comment on when this function would be needed?

[adithyaov]

Say we want to delete a post. Deleting the .org file and publishing the blog does not automatically delete the .html file produced. I've run into this problem when I renamed a .org file and noticed that the .html file with the previous name existed as well.

In general I think every program that produces files should have some mechanism to clean them up as well.

[bastibe]

In that case, it might be better to only delete HTML files that don't have a matching ORG file, I think. Would you like to add this functionality to the PR?

[adithyaov]

That's not the main objective of this function. It is analogous to make clean. The idea is to delete all build objects, in this case, all the generated files.

This can also be used to cleanly generate the site.

[bastibe]

I am a bit reluctant to merge this, because users might put custom HTML files into their publish-directory. Simply deleting all HTML and XML files feels very unsafe, to be honest.

[adithyaov]

Simply deleting all HTML and XML files feels very unsafe, to be honest.

How about an option to specify extra-files that are treated differently? Any custom HTML file should be specified there.

[bastibe]

Perhaps that, and let's not touch any file outside of org-static-blog-publish-directory. (I think we're not publishing anything to subdirectories, right?)

[adithyaov]

I think we're not publishing anything to subdirectories, right?

No. We have a flat directory structure.

[bastibe]

I am closing this due to inactivity. Feel free to reopen if you want to continue work on this.