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Joey Hess 2019-05-14 15:25:09 -04:00
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> remote in that group. This seems surprising!
>
> Maybe better than guessing would be to limit preferred content
> expression matching for importing to terms that don't require guessing.
> If an expression is found to require guessing, display a warning and
make the whole expression match. OR download the content
> from the remote, generate a key from it, and match the preferred
> content expression at that point. That avoids any surprises at
> the expense of an unnessary download. As long as the ContentIdentifier to
> expression matching for importing to terms that don't require the key.
> If an expression is found to require the key, display a warning and
> don't import.
>
> OR download the content
> from the remote, generate a key from it, and re-match the preferred
> content expression. That avoids any surprises and supports all
> expressions at the expense of an unnessary download. As long as the ContentIdentifier to
> Key mapping gets updated, it will only download a given file unncessarily
one time.
> one time.
>
> Which approach is better? Note that almost all of the standard groups
> do depend on the key. But it seems very likely that most actual
> uses of this feature would involve the name or size of a file that's
> being imported, and nothing else.
>
> > started work on this in the `preferred` branch. --[[Joey]]