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Link checking (proper) the site now takes less than 1 second. The workflow takes 1 minute, but that's the time required to set up and build the site.

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What is this file for? Do we need it or can we add it to the .gitignore?

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This is the external link reference cache. External links are checked against the refcache rather than fetching them on each run. It makes link checking more stable and more efficient. This is why the link-checking proper takes less than 100 milliseconds on my machine. Of course it means that we need to update the cache now and again, but it is worth it (IMHO).

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That makes sense, but I think i'd rather separate this into a different folder then. /static is part of the site being built, where as this refcache is a part of the build tooling, and doesn't need to be published.

Signed-off-by: Patrice Chalin <pchalin@gmail.com>
@chalin chalin force-pushed the chalin-im-link-checking-2025-03-19 branch from f4494c4 to dddf6d1 Compare March 19, 2025 17:11
@chalin chalin merged commit c6cb637 into cncf:main Mar 19, 2025
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[CI] Use htmltest for link checking of site pages Link checking: implement a simple caching strategy

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