Option to skip generating site map if no site content changed
vincerubinetti opened this issue · comments
Apologies if there's already an issue for this or if I'm misunderstanding.
Currently, this plugin seems to always add the date-time when the site was built, regardless of whether any content of the site changed. This has the unfortunate side effect of making your site build non-deterministic. That is, building your site will always produce a change/diff, even if the input source didn't change.
How this affects me is that in my CI/CD GitHub Actions workflows, I now have to manually check if there were any changes to the input source code, and only build the site if there were. This is to prevent unnecessary build-time, but also to prevent infinite CI/CD loops in some cases.
It'd be great if this plugin handled this automatically. Maybe Jekyll provides a plugin with some sort of information about what source code has changed?
I think I was misremembering things. I think it's the rss feed plugin that does this, not the sitemap plugin: jekyll/jekyll-feed#387
Though please sanity check me... this plugin doesn't do this too, right?
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