* The issue When setting org-id-link-to-org-use-id to t, an :ID: property is created for each headline that contain at least one code block that is tangled. * Reproducing this issue 1. Start emacs -Q 2. Open a "*.org" file at a location where you have write permissions (this is because, apparently, tangling only works when the file is correctly saved so this way we get rid of this possible issue) 3. Insert the following minimal working example into the buffer (you can find the Org Mode file attached to this mail) #+BEGIN_SRC org ,* foo ,#+HEADER: :tangle ~/Downloads/main.txt ,#+BEGIN_SRC text a ,#+END_SRC ,* bar ,#+HEADER: :tangle ~/Downloads/main.txt ,#+BEGIN_SRC text a ,#+END_SRC ,* fizz ,#+BEGIN_SRC text a ,#+END_SRC #+END_SRC 4. Execute the following commands #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (require 'org-id) (setq org-id-link-to-org-use-id t) #+END_SRC 5. Now, execute org-babel-tangle (C-c C-v C-t). At this point, a id property is created for the "foo" and "bar" headlines because those are the only headlines that contain a code block. This is what I got in emacs -Q #+BEGIN_SRC org ,* foo :PROPERTIES: :ID: 358560b4-2426-4d42-a498-ae16195daf3a :END: ,#+HEADER: :tangle ~/Downloads/main.txt ,#+BEGIN_SRC text a ,#+END_SRC ,* bar :PROPERTIES: :ID: 02217461-a744-42b2-b582-1a836568d686 :END: ,#+HEADER: :tangle ~/Downloads/main.txt ,#+BEGIN_SRC text a ,#+END_SRC ,* fizz ,#+BEGIN_SRC text a ,#+END_SRC #+END_SRC * Personal thoughts In my opinion, this is undesired behavior because the goal of org-id-link-to-org-use-id isn't creating an ID property for each headline when performing tangling. * Major undesired consequences The following is an scenario in which this issue causes major undesired consequences: Consider the following scenario + you have 1000 headlines in an Org Mode file + all of those headlines don't have an ID property (because you are not interested in uniquely identifying all of those headlines through an ID) + all of those headlines contain at least one code block that is tangled Because of this issue, the following would be added for each headline #+BEGIN_SRC org ,* my headline :PROPERTIES: :ID: <> :END: #+END_SRC and this have the following undesired consequences + You would end up with 3000 lines in your Org Mode file because of the id properties even when you weren't interested in creating an ID for each of those headlines. + You would have 1000 more entries in org-id-locations-file (again, even where you weren't interested in creating an ID for each of those headlines) -- La información contenida en este e-mail y sus anexos es confidencial, privilegiada y está dirigida exclusivamente a su destinatario, en consecuencia, solo puede ser utilizada por aquel. Si usted no es el destinatario original, no deberá examinar, usar, copiar o distribuir este mensaje o la información que contiene. Si lo recibe por error, por favor reenvíelo a la persona que se lo envió y elimínelo. Cualquier retención o uso total o parcial no autorizada de este mensaje está estrictamente prohibida y sancionada por ley.