Gollum: When renaming a page, leave redirects behind

[scribu]

In MediaWiki, if you create a page Shiny_Feature and then rename it to Renamed_Feature, when you access /Shiny_Feature you'll get automatically redirected to Renamed_Feature.

Any chance gollum could support something like this?

Without it, if you don't want users to get 404s, you'd have to manually create a stub page with a link to the new location.

[bootstraponline]

GitHub in general tends to like 404s. For example, try renaming your username.

I think this would be a useful feature to have in gollum though. I'm not a fan of 404.

[sunny]

The git database does not store this kind of information that I know of, so that would only apply to renames through the front-end.

Also, you want to be able to access and modify the original url. The simplest way to do that would be to replace the page by the text "This page has moved to [[New Page]]" without automatically redirecting.

[dometto]

Closing ing favor of #1023

[TallTed]

Reinventing wheels should come much closer to an approximation of a circle than a square. Redirects and/or "page moved" are basic features of every wiki in wide use. Why does Github's "better than the others because we made it" wiki not support these basic features?