Re: org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Dec 2, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Sebastien Vauban <sva-news@mygooglest.com> wrote:

> Rainer Stengele wrote:
>> last week I played around with org-indent-mode in my biggest (37.000 lines) org file.
>> 3 days later I detected that most of the file was corrupted.
>> WHy so late? Using the agenda I only saw the todos and did not recognise the corrupted structures.
>> Most "*" items had been placed at the beginning of the line and therefore now became headlines.
>> I do not know how this happened. I am not sure if I myself was the reason somehow.
>> Anyway I had to spend a fair amount of work to get the old file format from
>> subversion and insert the changes since the corruption.
>> 
>> This is just a warning to have backups at hand before changing to org-indent mode.
>> Then immediately and check often the contents of the file until you are sure all is running well.
>> 
>> Maybe someone has an idea.
>> 
>> I will try to convert again later but then be much more careful.
> 
> Last week, I also "lost" contents in the file I worked a lot in (R code,
> published to slides). In fact, I did not really lose it, thanks to SVN...
> 
> That seems to have been a nasty bug in the caching. I should be fixed AFAICT.
> But, yes, this can always happen. Better to have fallback mechanisms when it
> occurs -- even if we've to admit it is very, very seldsom, and only with the
> dev trunk.

This is great advice, in particular while testing fundamental changes like the caching mechanism.  git-up everybody!

- Carsten

> 
> Best regards,
>  Seb
> 
> -- 
> Sebastien Vauban
>