2009-03-19 22:31:53 +01:00
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I'm having some difficulties with ikiwiki's notion of time.
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For (regular) pages, the *last edited* date is the one where the file
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was indeed last modified according to the file system information.
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The *created* date (commented out in the HTML) is, at least for
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`--getctime` operation, the date, where the file was last registered
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as changed with the VCS.
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Now, at least with git, the thing is that when you're checking out files,
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they'll get the checkout-time's current time stamp.
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What I strive for is the following: *created* be the date when the file
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(under its current name) was *first* registered with the VCS (which is
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more logical in my opinion), and *last edited* be the date the file was
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last registered as changed with the VCS, which is the current
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`--getctime` *created* date.
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This means that I can build the HTML files from different checkouts of the
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VCS and they won't differ in the time stamps they contain in the HTML.
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What is the rationale for ikiwiki's current behavior with respect to these
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time stamps?
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--[[tschwinge]]
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2009-03-20 21:36:51 +01:00
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> Presumably it's the authors of the git and mercurial backends
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> not understanding the documentation for `rcs_getctime`,
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> which states:
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>>This is used to get the page creation time for a file from the RCS, by
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>>looking it up in the history.
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> I've fixed both broken implementations to correctly look
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> up the first, not the last, commit. Other VCS do not seem
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> to have the problem. --[[Joey]]
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