comments: add regression test for sorting by date

[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / bugs / broken_parentlinks.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/bugs/broken_parentlinks.mdwn b/doc/bugs/broken_parentlinks.mdwn
index caf1eeb0e4810923725eb01a18ff7841351a268d..556d89b65eb0515de9ff250ed85c2649ba6382c1 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/bugs/broken_parentlinks.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/broken_parentlinks.mdwn
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ a dead link for every subpage.
 
 This is a bug, but fixing it is very tricky. Consider what would happen if
 example.mdwn were created: example/page.html and the rest of example/*
 
 This is a bug, but fixing it is very tricky. Consider what would happen if
 example.mdwn were created: example/page.html and the rest of example/*

-would need to be updated to change the parentlink from a bare work to a
+would need to be updated to change the parentlink from a bare word to a

 link to the new page. Now if example.mdwn were removed again, they'd need
 to be updated again. So example/* depends on example. But it's even more
 tricky, because if example.mdwn is modified, we _don't_ want to rebuild
 link to the new page. Now if example.mdwn were removed again, they'd need
 to be updated again. So example/* depends on example. But it's even more
 tricky, because if example.mdwn is modified, we _don't_ want to rebuild


@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ example/*!
 ikiwiki doesn't have a way to represent this dependency and can't get one
 without a lot of new complex code being added.
 
 ikiwiki doesn't have a way to represent this dependency and can't get one
 without a lot of new complex code being added.
 

+> Note that this code has now been added. In new terms, example/* has a
+> presence dependency on example. So this bug is theoretically fixable now.
+> --[[Joey]] 
+

 For now the best thing to do is to make sure that you always create
 example if you create example/foo. Which is probably a good idea anyway..
 
 For now the best thing to do is to make sure that you always create
 example if you create example/foo. Which is probably a good idea anyway..
 


@@ -27,3 +31,20 @@ example if you create example/foo. Which is probably a good idea anyway..
 Note that this bug does not exist if the wiki is built with the "usedirs"
 option, since in that case, the parent link will link to a subdirectory,
 that will just be missing the index.html file, but still nicely usable.
 Note that this bug does not exist if the wiki is built with the "usedirs"
 option, since in that case, the parent link will link to a subdirectory,
 that will just be missing the index.html file, but still nicely usable.

+--[[Joey]] 
+
+----
+
+<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/translator/writing.html> does not exist.
+Then, on
+<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/translator/writing/example.html>, in the
+*parentlinks* line, *writing* links to the top-level *index* file.  It should
+rather not link anywhere at all.  --[[tschwinge]]
+
+> So, the bug has changed behavior a bit. Rather than a broken link, we get
+> a link to the toplevel page. This, FWIW, is because the template now
+> uses this for each parentlink:
+
+       <a href="<TMPL_VAR URL>"><TMPL_VAR PAGE></a>/
+
+> Best workaround is still to enable usedirs. --[[Joey]]