Can't tell what made the site

statac import reads a site another tool made, and tells which tool by the site’s files: a Jekyll site has _config.yml, _config.yaml or _config.toml at its top, and a Hugo site hugo.toml, hugo.yaml or hugo.json, a config.toml or the like that sets baseURL, or a config/_default/ folder, a Zola site zola.toml, or a config.toml that sets base_url, and an Eleventy site .eleventy.js or eleventy.config.js, .mjs or .cjs, or a package.json that names @11ty/eleventy. The folder it was given has the files of no tool Statac has a reader for, or those of more than one.

What you’ll see

error  Can't tell what made the site: `old` has no settings file Statac knows
  Say what made it with `--from=jekyll`.
  More: https://statac.dev/e/cant-tell-what-made/

In the terminal the message also names the file and line where there is one, and marks the exact text.

Why Statac stops

Each tool keeps its writing, its settings and its addresses its own way, and reading a site by the wrong tool’s rules would bring it across wrong without a word. Statac doesn’t guess which tool you used.

How to fix it

Say which tool made the site with --from, such as --from=jekyll, --from=hugo, --from=zola or --from=eleventy. Or check that the folder is the top of the old site, where its settings file is, and not a folder inside it or above it.

Example

statac import old

where old holds index.md and posts/, but no settings file. Where Jekyll made it:

statac import old --from=jekyll

Its name

Name	cant-tell-what-made
In the terminal	statac explain cant-tell-what-made
To stop showing it	It stops the build, so it can't be quietened.