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| author | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2010-04-21 23:08:54 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2010-04-21 23:08:54 -0400 |
| commit | c98414e192285b2607ee9fcb27f0e8e00db5fb26 (patch) | |
| tree | 266fe05e6827cbcd3f3ac4e7c5ca1756d0969b89 /doc/bugs | |
| parent | 13325317a32529e02769baa5e61e6c401c675b27 (diff) | |
added a test case for this bug
Further analysis suggests fixing this might not be as dreadful as I first
thought!
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/bugs')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/depends_simple_mixup.mdwn | 24 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/depends_simple_mixup.mdwn b/doc/bugs/depends_simple_mixup.mdwn index e7b48f802..79bfa8bdc 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/depends_simple_mixup.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/depends_simple_mixup.mdwn @@ -44,9 +44,11 @@ is modified to add the link, the regular dependency calculation code didn't notice, since the pagespec no longer matched. In this case, `depends_simple` needs to contain all pages -that do *not* match `link_done)`, but before my change, it contained +that do *not* match `link(done)`, but before my change, it contained all pages that *do* match. After my change, it contained all pages. +---- + So, seems what is needed is a way for influence info to be manipulated by the boolean operations that are applied. One way would be to have two sets of influences be returned, one for successful matches, and one for @@ -58,7 +60,25 @@ Then, when NOTting a `*Reason`, swap the two sets of influences. When ANDing/ORing, combine the individual sets. Querying the object for influences should return only the successful influences. -In light of this, commit f2b3d1341447cbf29189ab490daae418fbe5d02d seems +---- + +Would it be possible to avoid the complication of maintianing two sets of +influence info? + +Well, notice that the influence of `pagespec_match($page, "link(done)")` +is $page. Iff the match succeeds. + +Also, the influence of `pagespec_match($page, "!link(done)")` is +$page. Iff the (overall) match succeeds. + +Does that hold for all cases? If so, the code that populates +`depends_simple` could just test if the pagespec was successful, and +if not, avoid adding $page influences, while still adding any other, +non-$page influences. + +---- + +Hmm, commit f2b3d1341447cbf29189ab490daae418fbe5d02d seems thuroughly wrong. So, what about influence info for other matches like `!author(foo)` etc? Currently, none is returned, but it should be a content influence. (Backlink influence data is ok.) |