[KPhotoAlbum] Sort all by date

[Robert Krawitz]

On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 07:19:13 +0200, Miika Turkia wrote:
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> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Robert Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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>> On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:35:58 +0200, Miika Turkia wrote:
>> > I do not know if this is related to your patch, or if the problem was
>> there
>> > already... but I get duplicates of the images on my index.xml when I try
>> to
>> > sort images by date. (And when I restart KPA I still get the error
>> message,
>> > that my images are not sorted properly.) E.g.
>> >
>> > $ grep P4037045 index.xml|wc -l
>> > 12
>> > $ zgrep P4037045 index.xml~0125~.zip |wc -l
>> > 4
>> >
>> > Anyway, even the backup file is quite interesting. I have the original
>> RAW,
>> > to exact copies of same jpg (with same md5sum) and one more copy of the
>> > same image with different md5sum. The current index.xml, after sorting,
>> has
>> > the single jpg 3 times, and the double jpg is now available 8 times.
>> Weird.
>> > (RAW only once)
>>
>> Can you go back and try an earlier version to see if you can reproduce
>> it otherwise?
>>
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> Seems that this happens also with 4.4. Select all, expand stacks, sort by
> date, save. I do not really know why this happens nor to what images. And
> diffing the index files does not really help either, as there seems to be a
> lot of meaningless changes there as well masking the additions. (Originally
> 36263 images, after the sort 36271, so it is only a few images that gets
> duplicated, one image I know of gets 2 extra entries...)

I suspect that the merge in sortAndMergeBackIn is the problem here,
but I'd need to study it (after reproducing it, which I haven't been
able to do).
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