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diff --git a/doc/plugins/trail/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/trail/discussion.mdwn index 6c0b790b9..6a0f55968 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/trail/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/trail/discussion.mdwn @@ -103,3 +103,37 @@ Some later changes to trail: --[[smcv]] > Applied --[[Joey]] + +---- + +### Trail plugin creates unexpected interdependencies? +*(ikiwiki master branch 2014-06-06 also tested with 3.20140228 release)* + +I noticed the problem when using the [[/plugins/contrib/album]] plugin but a bit of testing revealed that the [[trail]] plugin, which is used by [[/plugins/contrib/album]] may be the cause of the problem. + +On a site with the following structure where all albumN.mdwn files have the `\[[!inline pages="page(./album01/*)" trail="yes"]]` directive set. All albumN pages and imgN pages get rebuilt whenever any one of the albumN or imgN pages are changed and the command `ikiwiki --setup wiki.setup --refresh --verbose` + is issued. + + /index.mdwn Contains no links maps or inlines + |-album01.mdwn [[!inline pages="page(./album01/*)" trail="yes"]] + |-album01/ + | |-imgA.mdwn + | |-imgB.mdwn + | + |-album02.mdwn [[!inline pages="page(./album02/*)" trail="yes"]] + |-album02/ + | |-imgC.mdwn + | |-imgD.mdwn + | + |-album03.mdwn [[!inline pages="page(./album03/*)" trail="yes"]] + |-album03/ + | |-imgE.mdwn + | |-imgF.mdwn + +Changing the index.mdwn page also triggers a full rebuild of all pages with [[trail]] directives. My sites tend to look like the above but with double digit numbers of files in at each level. Changing any file then means a full rebuild of a rather complex site which takes a long time. + +My setup and test may very well have mistakes but perhaps someone using the trail plugin could check (using the --verbose flag) if all their trails get rebuild when changing only one. I also find it curious that changes to the parent index.mdwn page triggers the same behaviour. + +I have removed a similar comment from the album discussion. + + --[[kjs]] |