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diff --git a/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn b/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn index 546f4f3aa..9586bc9b0 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 @@ -52,13 +52,17 @@ Downsides here: 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.) + 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 + pass, plugins/map is no longer updated (contentless dependencies FTW), + but plugins is, because it depends on plugins/brokenlinks.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|todo/dependency_types]].) + modification to plugins/brokenlinks causes an unnecessary update of + plugins, and could be solved by adding more dependency types.) --[[Joey]] |