From: smcv Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 23:55:25 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Added a comment X-Git-Tag: debian/3.20150329~65 X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/6000934615187707bf138d447e324633a72a39fd?hp=f04611a6d0e4738810dfa5af63cb06a33b45a4f5 Added a comment --- diff --git a/doc/forum/Autotag_transient_pages/comment_1_7194ae3acb30bef38a7158bbfaaf22d2._comment b/doc/forum/Autotag_transient_pages/comment_1_7194ae3acb30bef38a7158bbfaaf22d2._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3166c3979 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Autotag_transient_pages/comment_1_7194ae3acb30bef38a7158bbfaaf22d2._comment @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="smcv" + subject="comment 1" + date="2015-02-18T23:55:19Z" + content=""" +I think I can see why this wouldn't work: ikiwiki calculates the set of +potential \"autofiles\" (automatically-created pages, normally in the transient +underlay), once, then creates them. It does not check after it has created +them to see whether it should create any more for some reason. I'm not sure +whether it should or not. + +One possible workaround would be for your tag-extraction code to call +`IkiWiki::Plugin::tag::gentag` itself, at the same time it calls +`add_autofile` for its own automatically-created page. + +Having metadata like tags in transient pages seems a somewhat precarious +situation anyway: your wiki is structurally different, depending whether the +transient pages have turned up or not. That doesn't seem ideal? + +Whenever I've looked into making album extract metadata from photos, my idea +had been that it would generate \"real pages\" that get committed to git, so that +the metadata gets copied out of the opaque binary with no useful diff, that is not +necessarily even in the VCS (I use an underlay for photos), and into an editable +text format in git with useful diffs and history. +"""]]