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diff --git a/doc/bugs/broken_parentlinks.mdwn b/doc/bugs/broken_parentlinks.mdwn index 359f026ba..a58ff6ffe 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/broken_parentlinks.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/broken_parentlinks.mdwn @@ -6,4 +6,18 @@ For example, if you are in 'example/page.html', the header will be something like 'wiki / example / page'. Now, if 'example.html' doesn't exist, you'll have a dead link for every subpage. -[[todo/done]] +--- + +This is a bug, but fixing it is very tricky. Consider what would happen if +example.mdwn were created: example/page.html and the rest of example/* +would need to be updated to change the parentlink from a bare work to a +link to the new page. Now if example.mdwn were removed again, they'd need +to be updated again. So example/* depends on example. But it's even more +tricky, because if example.mdwn is modified, we _don't_ want to rebuild +example/*! + +ikiwiki doesn't have a way to represent this dependency and can't get one +without a lot of new complex code being added. + +For now the best thing to do is to make sure that you always create +example if you create example/foo. Which is probably a good idea anyway.. |