Plugin: transient
Author: Simon McVittie
Included in ikiwiki: yes
Enabled by default: yes
Included in goodstuff: no
Currently enabled: yes

The transient plugin adds an underlay in .ikiwiki/transient, which is intended for pages that are automatically created and should not be committed to the RCS. It works in the same way as the basewiki and the underlays set up by the underlay plugin, so if a page in the transient underlay is edited via the web, the edited version is committed to the RCS as usual. Unlike other underlays, if a page in the transient underlay is superseded by an edited version in the RCS, the old transient version is deleted automatically.

This plugin is mostly useful as something that other plugins can depend on:

• aggregate writes aggregated posts into the transient underlay
• autoindex can be configured to auto-create missing pages that have a subpage or an attachment, but not commit them, in which case they go in the transient underlay
• comments writes comments pending moderation to the transient underlay
• recentchanges writes new changes into the transient underlay
• tag can be configured to auto-create missing tag pages but not commit them, in which case they go in the transient underlay