From 75fd08046548940c443c46bcdf9a5b0b6968b175 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 13:49:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Remove support for check_cmp_foo (pre-sort checks)

---
 IkiWiki.pm             | 4 ----
 doc/plugins/write.mdwn | 5 -----
 2 files changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/IkiWiki.pm b/IkiWiki.pm
index 8f36f5818..7547f1751 100644
--- a/IkiWiki.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki.pm
@@ -1973,10 +1973,6 @@ sub cmpspec_translate ($) {
 		}
 
 		if (exists $IkiWiki::PageSpec::{"cmp_$word"}) {
-			if (exists $IkiWiki::PageSpec::{"check_cmp_$word"}) {
-				$IkiWiki::PageSpec::{"check_cmp_$word"}->($params);
-			}
-
 			if (defined $params) {
 				push @data, $params;
 				$code .= "IkiWiki::PageSpec::cmp_$word(\@_, \$data[$#data])";
diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
index de2b47015..06c8f8e44 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
@@ -1128,11 +1128,6 @@ is greater, or zero if they are considered equal. It may also raise an
 error using `error`, for instance if it needs a parameter but one isn't
 provided.
 
-You can also define a function called `check_cmp_foo` in the same package.
-If you do, it will be called while preparing to sort by `foo` or `foo(bar)`,
-with argument `undef` or `"bar"` respectively; it may raise an error using
-`error`, if sorting like that isn't going to work.
-
 ### Setup plugins
 
 The ikiwiki setup file is loaded using a pluggable mechanism. If you look
-- 
2.26.2