From: http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/ Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:04:56 +0000 (+0000) Subject: very slow progress X-Git-Tag: 3.20101231~17 X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/967137938c8f8bdee2149acef4ce138377db2041 very slow progress --- diff --git a/doc/todo/autoindex_should_use_add__95__autofile.mdwn b/doc/todo/autoindex_should_use_add__95__autofile.mdwn index 19c5004f8..353168c4f 100644 --- a/doc/todo/autoindex_should_use_add__95__autofile.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/autoindex_should_use_add__95__autofile.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,33 @@ `add_autofile` is a generic version of [[plugins/autoindex]]'s code, so the latter should probably use the former. --[[smcv]] -> See [[todo/transient_pages]] for progress on this. --[[smcv]] +---- + +[[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/autoindex-autofile author="[[smcv]]"]] + +I'm having trouble fixing this: + + # FIXME: some of this is probably redundant with add_autofile now, and + # 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 +reasoning behind the autofile and autoindex implementations, but now I'm +mostly confused. + +The autofile machinery records a list of every file that has ever been proposed +as an autofile: for instance, the tag plugin has a list of every tag that +has ever been named in a \[[!tag]] or \[[!taglink]], even if no file was +actually needed (e.g. because it already existed). Checks for files that +already exist (or whatever) are deferred until after this list has been +updated, and files in this list are never auto-created again unless the wiki +is rebuilt. + +The autoindex machinery records a more complex set. Items are added to the +set when they are deleted, but would otherwise have been added as an autoindex +(don't exist, do have children (by which I mean subpages or attachments), +and are a directory in the srcdir). They're removed if this particular run +wouldn't have added them as an autoindex (they exist, or don't have children). + +Still researching why there's this difference, and whether one or the other +would be better for all cases...