feat(deploy): added a --set-default flag to set the deployed version the new default

README.md

@@ -225,6 +225,9 @@ the setting of `alias_type`/`--alias-type`.)
 Like `deploy` and `delete` above, you can specify `--branch`, `--push`,
 etc to control how the commit is handled.
 
+As with `deploy`, you can pass `-d`/`--set-default` to set the published version
+as the new default.
+
 ### Changing a Version's Title
 
 As you update your docs, you may want to change the title of a particular

mike/commands.py

@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ def make_nojekyll():
 @contextmanager
 def deploy(cfg, version, title=None, aliases=[], update_aliases=False,
            alias_type=AliasType.symlink, template=None, *, branch='gh-pages',
-           message=None, allow_empty=False, deploy_prefix='', set_props=[]):
+           message=None, allow_empty=False, deploy_prefix='', set_props=[], 
+           set_default=False):
     if message is None:
         message = (
             'Deployed {rev} to {doc_version}{deploy_prefix} with MkDocs ' +
@@ -118,6 +119,13 @@ def deploy(cfg, version, title=None, aliases=[], update_aliases=False,
         commit.add_file(versions_to_file_info(all_versions, deploy_prefix))
         commit.add_file(make_nojekyll())
 
+        if set_default:
+            t = _redirect_template(template)
+            commit.add_file(git_utils.FileInfo(
+                os.path.join(deploy_prefix, 'index.html'),
+                t.render(href=version_str + '/')
+            ))
+
 
 def delete(identifiers=None, all=False, *, branch='gh-pages', message=None,
            allow_empty=False, deploy_prefix=''):

mike/driver.py

@@ -196,7 +196,8 @@ def deploy(parser, args):
                              branch=args.branch, message=args.message,
                              allow_empty=args.allow_empty,
                              deploy_prefix=args.deploy_prefix,
-                             set_props=args.set_props or []), \
+                             set_props=args.set_props or [],
+                             set_default=args.set_default), \
              mkdocs_utils.inject_plugin(args.config_file) as config_file:
             mkdocs_utils.build(config_file, args.version)
         if args.push:
@@ -350,6 +351,8 @@ def main():
                                 '%(choices)s; default: symlink)'))
     deploy_p.add_argument('-T', '--template', complete='file',
                           help='template file to use for redirects')
+    deploy_p.add_argument('-d', '--set-default', action='store_true',
+                          help='set the deployed version as the new default')
     add_git_arguments(deploy_p)
     add_set_prop_arguments(deploy_p, prefix='prop-')
     deploy_p.add_argument('version', metavar='VERSION',

test/integration/test_deploy.py

@@ -141,6 +141,15 @@ def test_update_aliases_with_version(self):
             versions.VersionInfo('1.0b1'),
         ])
 
+    def test_set_default(self):
+        assertPopen(['mike', 'deploy', '1.0', '--set-default'])
+        check_call_silent(['git', 'checkout', 'gh-pages'])
+        self._test_deploy(expected_versions=[
+            versions.VersionInfo('1.0'),
+        ])
+        with open('index.html') as f:
+            self.assertRegex(f.read(), match_redir('1.0/'))
+
     def test_from_subdir(self):
         os.mkdir('sub')
         with pushd('sub'):

test/unit/test_commands.py

@@ -49,11 +49,14 @@ def setUp(self):
         commit_files(['page.html', 'file.txt', 'dir/index.html'])
 
     def _test_state(self, expected_message, expected_versions,
-                    alias_type=AliasType.symlink, directory='.'):
+                    alias_type=AliasType.symlink, directory='.',
+                    expected_files=None):
         message = check_output(['git', 'log', '-1', '--pretty=%B']).rstrip()
         self.assertRegex(message, expected_message)
 
         files = {'versions.json'}
+        if expected_files:
+            files.update(expected_files)
         for v in expected_versions:
             vstr = str(v.version)
             files |= {vstr, vstr + '/page.html', vstr + '/file.txt',
@@ -281,6 +284,15 @@ def test_update_aliases(self):
             versions.VersionInfo('1.0', '1.0', []),
         ])
 
+    def test_set_default(self):
+        with commands.deploy(self.cfg, '1.0', set_default=True):
+            self._mock_build()
+        check_call_silent(['git', 'checkout', 'gh-pages'])
+        self._test_deploy(expected_files=["index.html"])
+
+        with open('index.html') as f:
+            self.assertRegex(f.read(), match_redir("1.0/"))
+
 
 class TestDelete(TestBase):
     stage_dir = 'delete'