where the images and the files will live. same row shape as the checkout above it,
because it is the same kind of fact: a thing that either is or is not at a known
path under the root, with one button that puts it there.
BESIDE `website`, never inside it, and that is the point of it being here rather
than a folder in the repository:
- it must SURVIVE the checkout. deleting `website` and cloning it again is a
normal thing to do when something is wrong with it, and it must never be the
thing that destroys the client's photographs.
- it must never be TRACKED. media in git is a repository nobody can clone a year
from now, and a .gitignore is a promise somebody eventually breaks with
`git add -f`.
both under one root, so a backup of the root is the whole site — the code and the
things it serves. that is the property that makes the root worth being a setting.
NOTHING ABOUT ITS INSIDES IS DECIDED. this creates the directory and reports
whether it is there; the layout, who writes to it and what goes where are still
being described. inventing a folder tree now would settle that in the file least
able to change its mind, because directories on disk are not a migration you can
run.
`mkdir -p`, so it also creates a root that is still only a default — saving a root
creates nothing, and provisioning into a path that does not exist is the ordinary
first run. idempotent by the same flag, which is what makes the button safe to
offer next to a status that might be stale.
no console for this one: making a directory either works or gives one line about
why not, and a black transcript box for a single sentence makes a small thing look
like a large one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5
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