1 * Has bugs updating things if the bestlink of a page changes due to
2 adding/removing a page. For example, if Foo/Bar links to "Baz", which is
3 Foo/Baz, and Foo/Bar/Baz gets added, it will update the links in Foo/Bar
4 to point to it, but will forget to update the backlinks in Foo/Baz.
6 The buggy code is in `refresh()`, when it determines what
7 links, on what pages, have changed. It only looks at
8 changed/added/deleted pages when doing this. But when Foo/Bar/Baz
9 is added, Foo/Bar is not changed -- so the change it its
10 backlinks is not noticed.
12 To fix this, it needs to consider, when rebuilding Foo/Bar for the changed
13 links, what oldlinks Foo/Bar had. If one of the oldlinks linked to
14 Foo/Baz, and not links to Foo/Bar/Baz, it could then rebuild Foo/Baz.
16 Problem is that in order to do that, it needs to be able to tell that
17 the oldlinks linked to Foo/Baz. Which would mean either calculating
18 all links before the scan phase, or keeping a copy of the backlinks
19 from the last build, and using that. The first option would be a lot
20 of work for this minor issue.. it might be less expensive to just rebuild
21 *all* pages that Foo/Bar links to.
23 Keeping a copy of the backlinks has some merit. It could also be
24 incrementally updated.
26 This old bug still exists as of 031d1bf5046ab77c796477a19967e7c0c512c417.
28 * And if Foo/Bar/Baz is then removed, Foo/Bar gets a broken link,
29 instead of changing back to linking to Foo/Baz.
31 This part was finally fixed by commit
32 f1ddf4bd98821a597d8fa1532092f09d3d9b5483.