Newer starter files

Some of the files statac new wrote as the site was made have a newer version in this Statac. Each is a file you never changed, or a file of yours made from a version of the starter that has changed since.

What you’ll see

note  Newer starter files: 1 of the files `statac new` wrote has a newer version
  Run `statac new --update`: it replaces those you never changed and shows what is new in the rest.
  More: https://statac.dev/e/newer-starter/

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

Why Statac says so

Once statac new has written a site’s templates, snippets and stylesheet, they are yours, and a better version in a later Statac never reaches them unasked. Statac knows every version each starter file has had, so it tells a file you never changed by its bytes, and nothing is kept in the site to tell it. A file you changed is held to the version nearest to it, by the fewest lines differing; where that is the newest, there is nothing new, and it isn’t counted. Statac says this once, on statac check and in the count after statac build.

How to fix it

Run statac new --update in the site’s folder. It puts the newest version in place of each file you never changed, and shows what is new in each of yours, which it never writes to. Then copy into your own files whatever of it you want.

If you mean to keep the files as they are, quieten it.

Example

statac new --update says what it did:

Updated `templates/base.html`.
`templates/post.html` is yours and wasn't touched. Since the starter file nearest to it, the starter's has changed:
  @@ line 12
   <h1>{{ headline(page) }}</h1>
  -<p>{{ page.date }}</p>
  +<p><time datetime="{{ page.date | moment }}">{{ page.date }}</time></p>
   {% if page.tags %}
Updated 1 file. 1 of yours has something new, shown above.

Its name

Name	newer-starter
In the terminal	statac explain newer-starter
To stop showing it	quiet: [newer-starter] in statac.yaml, once you have understood it. Statac still counts it.