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From: Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu>
To: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tangle option to not write a file with same contents?
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 20:58:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <860561.1635530303@apollo2.minshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slh732$h5t$1@ciao.gmane.io>

Max,

> > i wonder if it would be reasonable to add an option such that, when
> > tangling, `org-babel-tangle` would not write a file with the
> > already-existing contents of the target file?
> 
> Are you going to celebrate a decade of the feature request?
> I agree with you, make is wide spread and fast tool that is really
> convenient in simple cases.

hah -- i should have waited a few weeks!

> Some hash-based build systems are mentioned in that thread. Since that
> time more more similar tools have appeared, e.g. buck,
> reimplementations of DJB's redo https://cr.yp.to/redo.html

i think different people will settle on different build tools.

> It seems `compare-buffer-substrings` has more logic than just byte to
> byte comparison. Is it to handle alternatives for unicode character
> alternatives? For tangled buffer it should be size that is checked
> first...

you are right, it definitely makes sense to look first at size.  (which
is what, e.g., rsync(1) does.)  also, probably i needn't have mentioned
`compare-buffer-substrings` -- i was really just trying to suggest
"simple" (which maybe i anti-did?).

cheers, Greg


  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-29 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-28  4:04 tangle option to not write a file with same contents? Greg Minshall
2021-10-29 16:21 ` Max Nikulin
2021-10-29 17:58   ` Greg Minshall [this message]
2021-10-30 15:13     ` Max Nikulin
2021-10-30 16:13       ` Greg Minshall
2022-05-07  8:05 ` Max Nikulin
2022-05-08  4:42   ` [PATCH] " Ihor Radchenko
2022-05-17 15:39     ` Max Nikulin
2022-05-30  3:14       ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-05-31 16:07         ` Max Nikulin
2022-06-03  7:04           ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-06-07  3:47             ` Tom Gillespie
2022-06-01 13:18     ` Greg Minshall
2022-09-12 17:36       ` Org version mismatch -- hooray! Greg Minshall

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