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diff --git a/doc/bugs/pagemtime_in_refresh_mode.mdwn b/doc/bugs/pagemtime_in_refresh_mode.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f926ec86c --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/pagemtime_in_refresh_mode.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +I'd like a way to always ask the RCS (Git) to update a file's mtime in +refresh mode. This is currently only done on the first build, and later +for `--gettime --rebuild`. But always rebuilding is too heavy-weight for +this use-case. My options are to either manually set the mtime before +refreshing, or to have ikiwiki do it at command. I used to do the +former, but would now like the latter, as ikiwiki now generally does this +timestamp handling. + +From a quick look, the code in `IkiWiki/Render.pm:find_new_files` is +relevant: `if (! $pagemtime{$page}) { [...]`. + +How would you like to tackle this? + +--[[tschwinge]] + +> This could be done via a `needsbuild` hook. The hook is passed +> the list of changed files, and it should be safe to call `rcs_getmtime` +> and update the `pagemtime` for each. +> +> That lets the feature be done by a plugin, which seems good, since +> `rcs_getmtime` varies between very slow and not very fast, depending on +> VCS. +> +> AFAICS, the only use case for doing this is if you commit changes and +> then delay pushing them to a DVCS repo. Since then the file mtime will +> be when the change was pushed, not when it was committed. But I've +> generally felt that recording when a change was published to the repo +> of a wiki as its mtime is good enough. --[[Joey]] |