From 7fbddb032ee952c6d0b1ee290568ea4f42ef181f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/" <http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/@web>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:27:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] link to an alternative approach that I decided against

---
 doc/todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods.mdwn | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods.mdwn b/doc/todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods.mdwn
index 3aa1d94a6..1533b6c44 100644
--- a/doc/todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods.mdwn
@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ and changing the meaning of sort=title in 4.0, though).
 Gitweb:
 <http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/sort-hooks>
 
+I briefly tried to turn *all* the current sort types into hook functions, and
+have some of them pre-registered, but decided that probably wasn't a good idea.
+That earlier version of the branch is also available for comparison:
+
+<http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/sort-hooks-excessive>
+
 ## Documentation extracted from the branch
 
 ### sort hook (added to [[plugins/write]])
-- 
2.39.5