Page's .GetPage "ambiguous" message when child is drafted

[regisphilibert]

I set up this demo repo for consutling: https://github.com/regisphilibert/get-page-ambiguous

1. I create a directory to store pages of equal types.
2. I create different directory which will share some homonymous files

content
├── _index.md
└── questions
    ├── what
    │   ├── _index.md
    │   ├── locations.md
    │   └── members.md
    ├── where
    │   ├── _index.md
    │   ├── locations.md
    │   └── members.md
    └── who
        ├── _index.md
        ├── locations.md
        └── members.md

3. Set content/questions/who/members.md to draft.
4. From the layout of layouts/questions/list.html which is used to build pages like who/_index.md, run:

  {{ with .GetPage "members.md" }}
    {{ .Title }}
  {{ end }}

I get the message:

Error: Error building site: failed to render pages: render of "section" failed: "/XXX/get-page-ambiguous/layouts/questions/list.html:2:10": execute of template failed: template: questions/list.html:2:10: executing "main" at <.GetPage>: error calling GetPage: failed to resolve ref: page reference "members.md" is ambiguous
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PS: Note that questions/_index.md uses a custom layout so it does not use the .GetPage "members" from which the ambiguous message is called for.

In this context would think .GetPage would simply return false upon not finding any sub pages of the current page.

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[bep]

A workaround is this:

 {{ with .GetPage "./members.md" }}
    {{ .Title }}
  {{ end }}

The historic reason why the above works like it does is because we use the same method in ref´ and relRefand as such this is kind of legacy behaviour. But I do agree that.GetPage` should behave as you would expect.

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