add news item for ikiwiki 3.20140227

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

diff --git a/doc/bugs/pagespec_error_on_refresh_but_not_rebuild.mdwn b/doc/bugs/pagespec_error_on_refresh_but_not_rebuild.mdwn
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--- a/doc/bugs/pagespec_error_on_refresh_but_not_rebuild.mdwn
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@@ -15,3 +15,18 @@ I'm getting this error message when I refresh my wiki:
     warning: post-commit hook exited with status 2
 
 But there is no error if I use `ikiwiki --rebuild` to regenerate the whole thing.
+
+> You neglect to say what version of ikiwiki this is,
+> or give any information to reproduce the bug.
+> 
+> My guess: A version older than 3.20100403, which  included
+> 799b93d258bad917262ac160df74136f05d4a451,
+> which could lead to incorrect "syntax error in pagespec"
+> that only happened some of the time.
+> 
+> (The Text::Typography warning seems probably unrelated.)
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+>> I'm sorry, I don't know what I was thinking there.  It's ikiwiki 3.20100212, and manually applying the patch you linked to made the bug go away.  (Upgrading ikiwiki is a pain on nearlyfreespeech, especially if you don't want to keep the build directory around -- please consider making ikiwiki runnable directly from a git clone.)
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