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@@ -23,3 +23,22 @@ Is this a problem on my site or does anyone else see this?
 >> \[[!map pages="path/to/page/* and ! ...
 >>
 >> This told me that [[plugins/autoindex]] is the bad guy. Deactivating this plugin helps out. Don't know if this is worth fixing... I can live without that plugin. --bacuh
+
+>>> The right fix would probably be for `do=create` to allow replacing a page
+>>> in the transient underlay without complaining (like the behaviour that
+>>> `do=edit` normally has).
+
+>>>> ... which it turns out it already does. --[[smcv]]
+
+>>> That wouldn't help you unless [[plugins/autoindex]]
+>>> defaulted to making transient pages (`autoindex_commit => 0`), but if we
+>>> can fix [[removal_of_transient_pages]] then maybe that default can change?
+>>> --[[smcv]]
+
+>>>> It turns out that with `autoindex_commit => 0`, the failure mode is
+>>>> different. The transient map is created when you attach the
+>>>> attachment. When you save the page, it's written into the srcdir,
+>>>> the map is deleted from the transientdir, and the ctime/mtime
+>>>> in the indexdb are those of the file in the srcdir, but for some
+>>>> reason the HTML output isn't re-generated (despite a refresh
+>>>> happening). --[[smcv]]