ByLinkTitle seemingly sorts by date if link title not explicitly set

[zombiezen]

I have a bunch of content in my Hugo site that I'm sorting by link title in a list template (using .Data.Pages.ByLinkTitle). However, .ByLinkTitle appears to not work as documented; it appears to be sorting by date order. .ByTitle works as expected. All of the content being sorted does not have an explicit link title set, but they do all have titles set in the front matter. I'm able to reproduce this on Hugo 0.44.

The site source is here, you can reproduce by changing this line of layouts/commands/list.html to use .ByLinkTitle and seeing the effects on /cmd/. Let me know if you need a more minimal reproduction case.

Based on examining the Hugo source briefly, what I'm suspecting here is that Page.linkTitle is not being set correctly to the implicit default of title when considering for sort, but I couldn't confirm this with certainty.

[bep]

I just checked the code, and it sorts by linkTitle only -- which I think is wrong, but not in the way you describe.

I would expect it to sort by LinktTitle (the method), which has a fallback to title if no linkTitle etc. Now you will get odd results for the pages where no value is set for that field in front matter. We should probably also do the same the other way around for ByTitle.

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[zombiezen]

I don't believe this bug has been fixed.

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