On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Gilles Detillieux wrote:

> I think you misinterpreted what Lachlan suggested, i.e. the case where Y
> does NOT change.  If Y is the only document with a link to X, and Y does
> not change, it will still have the link to X, so X is still "valid".
> However, if Y didn't change, and htdig (without -i) doesn't reindex Y,
> then how will it find the link to X to validate X's presence in the db?

  Doh!  Yep, now I see it and yep it's a problem!  We're going to need to
implement the logic Gabriele/Lachlan discussed to cure this.

On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Lachlan Andrew wrote:

>> However I would strongly recommend we enable head_before_get by
>> default. We're basically wasting bandwidth like drunken sailors
>> with it off!!!
>
>Good suggestion.  If we want some code bloat, we could have an "auto"
>mode, which would use  head_before_get  unless  -i  is specified, but
>not when  -i  is specified (since we'll always have to do the "get"
>anyway)...

  This would be a two-line change.. we simply make 'true' the default
and manualy change it to false with a line of code that executes when '-i'
is given!

  Post 3.2 we could remove the config verb altogether.

Neal Richter
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