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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2014-02-25 18:45:09 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2014-02-25 18:45:09 -0400 |
| commit | 425b6fca0046d6fb8ddd8a8a4f2bd77fef52c25d (patch) | |
| tree | eec260145fb8df2a8160e6dc3b248751878e381d /doc | |
| parent | 7b15c2146cb3fcb60a95dd6df435b34bd97e39db (diff) | |
metadata: FIeld names are now case insensative.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/design/metadata.mdwn | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/install/fromscratch.mdwn | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/metadata.mdwn | 6 |
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/doc/design/metadata.mdwn b/doc/design/metadata.mdwn index 7d1ff4bfa..704738843 100644 --- a/doc/design/metadata.mdwn +++ b/doc/design/metadata.mdwn @@ -180,14 +180,7 @@ So, possible approaches: 2 directories representing a metadata field. Solution might be to compare fields names case-insensitively, and - pick one representation consistently. - - Alternatively, it could escape `A` to `_A` when such a filesystem - is detected and avoid collisions that way (double `_` to escape it). - This latter option is ugly, but so are non-posix filesystems.. and it - also solves any similar issues with case-colliding filenames. - - TODO: Check current state of this. + pick one representation consistently. **done** * Assistant needs to know about views, so it can update metadata when files are moved around inside them. TODO diff --git a/doc/install/fromscratch.mdwn b/doc/install/fromscratch.mdwn index 6cc2d90c6..210b6ed7f 100644 --- a/doc/install/fromscratch.mdwn +++ b/doc/install/fromscratch.mdwn @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ quite a lot. * [extensible-exceptions](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/extensible-exceptions) * [feed](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/feed) * [async](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/async) + * [case-insensitive](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/case-insensitive) * [stm](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/stm) (version 2.3 or newer) * Optional haskell stuff, used by the [[assistant]] and its webapp @@ -36,7 +37,6 @@ quite a lot. * [yesod-static](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/yesod-static) * [yesod-default](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/yesod-default) * [data-default](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/data-default) - * [case-insensitive](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/case-insensitive) * [http-types](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/http-types) * [wai](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/wai) * [wai-logger](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/wai-logger) diff --git a/doc/metadata.mdwn b/doc/metadata.mdwn index d3c3b748e..9966e7d7d 100644 --- a/doc/metadata.mdwn +++ b/doc/metadata.mdwn @@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ fields, which each can have any number of values. For example, to tag files, the `tag` field is typically used, with values set to each tag that applies to the file. -The field names are limited to alphanumerics (and `[_-.]`). The metadata -values can contain absolutely anything you like -- but you're recommended -to keep it simple and reasonably short. +The field names are limited to alphanumerics (and `[_-.]`), and are case +insensitive. The metadata values can contain absolutely anything you +like -- but you're recommended to keep it simple and reasonably short. Here are some recommended metadata fields to use: |