From: Joey Hess Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 21:44:15 +0000 (-0400) Subject: uh oh, this affects link deps X-Git-Tag: 3.20091017~27^2~103 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7a520974b59c1a498232512978e4abd926292066;p=ikiwiki.git uh oh, this affects link deps --- diff --git a/doc/bugs/bestlink_change_update_issue.mdwn b/doc/bugs/bestlink_change_update_issue.mdwn index fee65c0de..211a78332 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/bestlink_change_update_issue.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/bestlink_change_update_issue.mdwn @@ -1,16 +1,15 @@ * Has bugs updating things if the bestlink of a page changes due to adding/removing a page. For example, if Foo/Bar links to "Baz", which is Foo/Baz, and Foo/Bar/Baz gets added, it will update the links in Foo/Bar - to point to it, but will forget to update the linkbacks in Foo/Baz. + to point to it, but will forget to update the backlinks in Foo/Baz. -* And if Foo/Bar/Baz is then removed, it forgets to update Foo/Bar to link - back to Foo/Baz. +* And if Foo/Bar/Baz is then removed, Foo/Bar gets a broken link, + instead of changing back to linking to Foo/Baz. -As of 1.33, this is still true. The buggy code is the %linkchanged -calculation in refresh(), which doesn't detect that the link has changed in -this case. +This old bug still exists as of 031d1bf5046ab77c796477a19967e7c0c512c417. +and now this same problem also affects link dependencies. -Still true in 1.43 although the code is much different now.. - -> Still true as of 031d1bf5046ab77c796477a19967e7c0c512c417, -> and now this same problem also affects link dependencies. +(Some of) The buggy code is in `find_changed_links` +which doesn't detect that the link has changed in +this case, because when it looks at where the `%oldlinks` link to, +it does so after having updated state to add/remove the page.