point to my 'transient' branch

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diff --git a/doc/todo/auto-create_tag_pages_according_to_a_template.mdwn b/doc/todo/auto-create_tag_pages_according_to_a_template.mdwn
index 676e2bc00..e065c4a3d 100644
--- a/doc/todo/auto-create_tag_pages_according_to_a_template.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/auto-create_tag_pages_according_to_a_template.mdwn
@@ -262,4 +262,6 @@ other pages claim it as an alias. --[[chrysn]]
 
 I agree with [[chrysn]]. In fact, is there any good reason that the core tag plugin doesn't do this? The current usability is horrible, to the point that I have gone 2.5 years with Ikiwiki and haven't yet started using tags. -- [[Eric|http://wiki.pdxhub.org/people/eric]]
 
+> See [[todo/transient in-memory pages]] for progress on this. --[[smcv]]
+
 [[!tag done]]
diff --git a/doc/todo/autoindex_should_use_add__95__autofile.mdwn b/doc/todo/autoindex_should_use_add__95__autofile.mdwn
index 517567e58..64f81c82e 100644
--- a/doc/todo/autoindex_should_use_add__95__autofile.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/autoindex_should_use_add__95__autofile.mdwn
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 `add_autofile` is a generic version of [[plugins/autoindex]]'s code,
 so the latter should probably use the former. --[[smcv]]
+
+> See [[todo/transient in-memory pages]] for progress on this. --[[smcv]]
diff --git a/doc/todo/transient_in-memory_pages.mdwn b/doc/todo/transient_in-memory_pages.mdwn
index 9808ffdfe..5dbbe4f82 100644
--- a/doc/todo/transient_in-memory_pages.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/transient_in-memory_pages.mdwn
@@ -18,3 +18,26 @@ This would also be useful for autoindex, as suggested on
 One refinement I'd suggest is that if the transient page is edited,
 its transient contents are evaluated and used as the initial
 content for the edit box; after that, it'd become a static page. --[[smcv]]
+
+--------------------------
+
+[[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/transient author="[[smcv]]"]]
+[[!tag patch]]
+
+I had a look at implementing this. It turns out to be harder than I thought
+to have purely in-memory pages (several plugins want to be able to access the
+source file as a file), but I did get this proof-of-concept branch
+to write tag and autoindex pages into an underlay.
+
+This loses the ability to delete the auto-created pages (although they don't
+clutter up git this way, at least), and a lot of the code in autoindex is
+probably now redundant, so this is probably not quite ready for merge, but
+I'd welcome opinions.
+
+Usage: set `tag_underlay` and/or `autoindex_underlay` to an absolute path,
+which you must create beforehand. I suggest *srcdir* + `/.ikiwiki/transient`.
+
+Refinements that could be made if this approach seems reasonable:
+
+* make these options boolean, and have the path always be `.ikiwiki/transient`
+* improve the `remove` plugin so it also deletes from this special underlay