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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ so the latter should probably use the former. --[[smcv]]
 
 ----
 
-[[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/autoindex-autofile author="[[smcv]]"]]
+[[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/ready/autoindex-autofile author="[[smcv]]"]]
 
 I'm having trouble fixing this:
 
@@ -11,7 +11,11 @@ I'm having trouble fixing this:
        # the rest should perhaps be added to the autofile machinery
 
 By "a generic version of" above, it seems I mean "almost, but not
-quite, entirely unlike". I tried digging through the git history for the
+quite, entirely unlike".
+
+> As long as it's not Tea. ;) --[[Joey]] 
+
+I tried digging through the git history for the
 reasoning behind the autofile and autoindex implementations, but now I'm
 mostly confused.
 
@@ -60,6 +64,13 @@ I'm less sure that these shouldn't create the tag page: we deleted the
 manually-created version, but that doesn't necessarily mean we don't want
 *something* to exist.
 
+> That could be argued, but it's a very DWIM thing. Probably best to keep
+> the behavior simple and predictable, so one only needs to remember that
+> when a page is deleted, nothing will ever re-create it behind ones back.
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Fair enough, I'll make autoindex do that. --s
+
 ## autoindex
 
 The autoindex machinery records a more complex set. Items are added to the
@@ -87,12 +98,21 @@ However, unlike the generic autofile infrastructure, `autoindex` forgets
 that it shouldn't re-create the deleted page in the latter two situations:
 
 * create auto-del-create-del/child, resulting in auto-del-create-del being
-  created automatically
+    created automatically
 * delete auto-del-create-del; it's added to `%deleted` and not re-created
 * create auto-del-create-del manually; it's removed from `%deleted`
 * delete auto-del-create-del again (it's re-created)
 
+and
+
 * create create-del-auto
 * delete create-del-auto; it's not added to `%deleted` because there's no
-  child that would cause it to exist
+    child that would cause it to exist
 * create create-del-auto/child
+
+> I doubt there is any good reason for this behavior. These are probably
+> bugs. --[[Joey]] 
+
+>> OK, I believe my updated branch gives `autoindex` the same behaviour
+>> as auto-creation of tags. The `auto-del-create-del` and
+>> `create-del-auto` use cases work the same as for tags on my demo wiki. --s