discovered a wrinkle

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+        " NOTE: the root of the wiki is considered the first directory that contains a
+        " .ikiwiki folder, except $HOME/.ikiwiki (the usual ikiwiki libdir)
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+That's not going to work in all situations; for example, with an ikiwiki which uses git as the backend, the normal setup is that one has
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+* a bare git repository
+* a git repository which ikiwiki builds the wiki from (which has a .ikiwiki directory in it)
+* an *additional* git repository cloned from the bare repository, which is used for making changes from the command-line rather than the web.  It is this repository in which one would be editing files with vim, and *this* repository does not have a .ikiwiki directory in it.  It does have a .git directory in the root, however, so I suppose you could use that as a method of detection of a root directory, but of course that would only work for git repositories.
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+-- [[KathrynAndersen]]