X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/53a8aeb1d1cfd42ae069e173437b34489d28d157..0cb9e588e4253d317945399120a1ef5780b59d7a:/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn?ds=inline diff --git a/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn b/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn index 89f0d7085..0a2e9ec28 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ If a sidebar contains a map, or inline (etc), one would expect a -change/add/remove of any of the mapped/inlined pages to cause a full wiki +add/remove of any of the mapped/inlined pages to cause a full wiki rebuild. But this does not happen. If page A inlines page B, which inlines page C, a change to C will cause B @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ this bug coming back. Ugh. ## rebuild = change approach -[[!template id=gitbranch branch=master/transitive-dependencies author="[[joey]]"]] +[[!template id=gitbranch branch=origin/transitive-dependencies author="[[joey]]"]] Another approach to fix it is to say that anything that causes a rebuild of B is treated as a change of B. Then when C is changed, B is @@ -51,12 +51,18 @@ Downsides here: * Means a minimum of 2x as much time spent resolving dependencies, at least in my simple implementation, which re-runs the dependency resolution loop until no new pages are rebuilt. + (I added an optimisation that gets it down to 1.5X as much work on + average, still 2x as much worst case. I suppose building a directed + graph and traversing it would be theoretically more efficient.) * Causes extra work for some transitive dependencies that we don't - actually care about. For example, changing index causes + actually care about. This is amelorated, but not solved by + the current work on [[todo/dependency_types]]. + For example, changing index causes plugins/brokenlinks to update in the first pass; if there's a second - pass, plugins/map is then updated, because it depends on plugins/brokenlinks. + pass, plugins/map is no longer updated (contentless dependencies FTW), + but plugins is, because it depends on plugins/brokenlinks. (Of course, this is just a special case of the issue that a real - modification to plugins/brokenlinks causes an unnecessary update of plugins/map, - because we have only one kind of dependency.) + modification to plugins/brokenlinks causes an unnecessary update of + plugins, and could be solved by adding more dependency types.) ---[[Joey]] +[[done]] --[[Joey]]