Are you building your wiki by running a command like this?
- ikiwiki -setup my.setup
+ ikiwiki --setup my.setup
If so, you're always telling ikiwiki to rebuild the entire site, from
scratch. But, ikiwiki is smart, it can incrementally update a site,
building only things affected by the changes you make. You just have to let
it do so:
- ikiwiki -setup my.setup -refresh
+ ikiwiki --setup my.setup --refresh
Ikiwiki automatically uses an incremental refresh like this when handing
a web edit, or when run from a [[rcs]] post-commit hook. (If you've
configured the hook in the usual way.) Most people who have run into this
-problem got in the habit of running `ikiwiki -setup my.setup` by hand
+problem got in the habit of running `ikiwiki --setup my.setup` by hand
when their wiki was small, and found it got slower as they added pages.
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command. Obviously, more files will make it take longer.
You can avoid this scanning overhead, if you're using git, by setting
- `only_committed_changes`. This makes ikiwiki -refresh query git for
+ `only_committed_changes`. This makes ikiwiki --refresh query git for
changed files since the last time, which tends to be a lot faster.
However, it only works if all files in your wiki are committed to git
(or stored in the [[/plugins/transient]] underlay).