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From: Moritz Ulrich <moritz@tarn-vedra.de>
To: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Store org-files in a git repository?
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:23:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m27gs1o6tm.fsf@tarn-vedra.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fw6sykb8.fsf@Rainer.invalid>

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Achim Gratz writes:

> Moritz Ulrich writes:
>> I plan to put my org directory (where I keep among other my agenda
>> files) under version control and would like to have some sort of
>> specialized function for that.
>>
>> My dream setup would be a range of functions hooking into all sorts of
>> org-mode hooks, automatically committing changes done via the agenda or
>> other org functions together with a context dependent commit message.
>
> »The road to hell is paved with good intentions.« — proverb
>
> What you're proposing (if I understand it correctly) would introduce
> transactions to Org and with it the non-trivial problem of determining
> when a transaction is finished (and started, but that's really another
> one).  Git would merely be the mechanism to record the transactions and
> probably not a good one at that even with the merge driver.
>
> THat aside, even if it worked I'm sure it would annoy me so much I'd
> switch it off entirely.
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.

I rarely thought about the problem of transactional operations in
org-mode. From the standpoint you mentioned, my dream doesn't look that
nice anymore.

A simple cron job for committing doesn't sound that bad anymore ;-)

Thanks for saving me much work.


Cheers,
Moritz Ulrich

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Moritz Ulrich

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-10 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-07 23:28 Store org-files in a git repository? Moritz Ulrich
2012-09-07 23:57 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2012-09-08  0:26   ` Charles Philip Chan
2012-09-08  8:45 ` Achim Gratz
2012-09-10 22:23   ` Moritz Ulrich [this message]
2012-09-11  2:18     ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2012-09-11 18:11       ` Achim Gratz
2012-09-14 11:15     ` Bernt Hansen
2012-09-12 14:18 ` Bastien
2012-09-12 16:52   ` Samuel Wales
2012-09-13 18:05     ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa

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