From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Best practices for literate programming [was: Latex export of tables]
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:25:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppxrr90o.fsf@pank.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87r4i7ra7z.fsf@gmail.com
Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com> writes:
> If your external org configuration file were kept under version control
> (I’ll discuss git but the principle is general), then reproducibility
> would be possible. There are ways of embedding git hashes in LaTeX
> documents (for one example:
> http://thorehusfeldt.net/2011/05/13/including-git-revision-identifiers-in-latex/),
> and of course org could help automate this. Including the git hash of
> the document itself, the config file, and org-mode’s own code (assuming
> these are kept in 3 separate repos) should allow perfect reproducibility
> (modulo incompatible changes in emacs, I guess).
Sounds interesting. I'll check it out.
> It would be interesting for org to have an ability to reference files
> not just by name, but by git revision. So that you could do something
> like (where 123456 is some git hash):
> #+include: [[gitbare:/path/to/repo::123456:my-org-setup-file.org]]
> and have org take care of checking out the proper revision and loading
> the file in the usual way. This syntax is already implemented, for
> plain links, in contrib/lisp/org-git-link.el, so it is just a matter
> of making #+include and friends understand links in addition to
> filenames.
Now that is a great idea that allows for both incremental
improvements while still retaining compatibility for old files.
–Rasmus
--
And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice
is no virtue
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-18 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-12 8:06 Latex export of tables Vikas Rawal
2013-04-14 23:29 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-04-16 11:56 ` Vikas Rawal
2013-04-16 13:13 ` Thomas Alexander Gerds
2013-04-16 17:39 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-04-16 20:07 ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-04-16 21:39 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-04-16 23:45 ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-04-17 10:21 ` Myles English
2013-04-16 22:10 ` Best practices for literate programming [was: Latex export of tables] Vikas Rawal
2013-04-17 0:06 ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-04-18 16:53 ` Rasmus
2013-04-18 17:59 ` Aaron Ecay
2013-04-18 18:25 ` Rasmus [this message]
2013-04-18 19:48 ` Achim Gratz
2013-04-18 19:42 ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-04-21 17:25 ` Rasmus Pank Roulund
2013-04-17 6:39 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-04-17 9:55 ` Rainer M. Krug
2013-04-17 10:10 ` Suvayu Ali
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