Request/feature: clean slate / delete subpages of parent before publish about md2cf HOT 5 OPEN

Yeah, this is something I've been avoiding on purpose because I wanted to think of an elegant solution. Right now it's possible to rename a page by specifying the page ID for it on the command line, but only when uploading one document at a time. For multiple documents we'd have to keep a mapping of all the existing page IDs, or do what you suggested and wipe all subpages for a parent page. There's still a risk that people will delete pages they don't want to delete, but it can be up to the user.

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Yeah, I completely get you!

In reality, I'd prefer to have a GitHub Action that either compares the current and previous commit git diff HEAD^ HEAD or even better the dry-run of HEAD and HEAD^. This could be done to flag/target pages that potentially should be deleted.

The pages should only be deleted if one of the following:

• The page is identical to the HEAD^ aka no manual edits (so either a comparison of the content or who last modified the page)
• A flag that forces the code is the golden record/source of truth

If none of these conditions is set, you could either break the action or less intrusive create a warning.

This if of course just brainstorming on a feature that'd be nice to have :)

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