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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: David Masterson <dsmasterson@outlook.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: CUSTOM_ID vs ID
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 08:38:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r269tkfk.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BYAPR07MB5734C9593C996B64E8C02A72A5DD0@BYAPR07MB5734.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> (David Masterson's message of "Mon, 29 Jul 2019 04:23:18 +0000")

Hello,

David Masterson <dsmasterson@outlook.com> writes:

> Can you talk a little bit about how IDs are generated so that they are
> absolutely unique?

See `org-id-new'. By default, it uses "uuidgen" command.

> IDs sound like something that would be useful for synchronizing
> information between two (or more) separate Org systems - the ID could be
> updated whenever a change occurs and then used to determine what needs
> synchronization.  True?

I think this is different. ID property is meant to never change once
created. If you update it, you lose the reference to the headline, which
defeats the intended purpose.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-29  6:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-27 23:35 CUSTOM_ID vs ID Nathan Neff
2019-07-28  8:10 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-07-29  4:23   ` David Masterson
2019-07-29  6:38     ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2019-08-02  4:54       ` David Masterson
2019-07-30  0:38   ` Nathan Neff
2019-08-01  7:55     ` Richard Lawrence
2019-08-09 11:13     ` Adam Porter
2019-08-02 14:53   ` Nathan Neff
2019-08-09 11:12     ` Adam Porter
2019-08-18  0:53   ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2019-08-18 10:40     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-08-18 14:24       ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2019-08-18 15:05         ` Nicolas Goaziou

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