From a8af271e5aed1c4aef3f66cee0847d609aedc705 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 16:28:14 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] document effect of contentless dependencies on sidebar efficiency --- doc/plugins/sidebar.mdwn | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/plugins/sidebar.mdwn b/doc/plugins/sidebar.mdwn index 36982eff3..4e356d65a 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/sidebar.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/sidebar.mdwn @@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ will turn off the sidebar altogether. Warning: Any change to the sidebar will cause a rebuild of the whole wiki, since every page includes a copy that has to be updated. This can -especially be a problem if the sidebar includes [[inline]] or [[map]] -directives, since any changes to pages inlined or mapped onto the sidebar +especially be a problem if the sidebar includes an [[ikiwiki/directive/inline]] +directive, since any changes to pages inlined into the sidebar will change the sidebar and cause a full wiki rebuild. + +Instead, if you include a [[ikiwiki/directive/map]] directive on the sidebar, +and it does not use the `show` parameter, only adding or removing pages +included in the map will cause a full rebuild. Modifying pages will not.