Re: Best practices for literate programming [was: Latex export of tables]

[Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>]

Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com> writes:

> If your external org configuration file were kept under version control
> (I’ll discuss git but the principle is general), then reproducibility
> would be possible.  There are ways of embedding git hashes in LaTeX
> documents (for one example:
> http://thorehusfeldt.net/2011/05/13/including-git-revision-identifiers-in-latex/),
> and of course org could help automate this.  Including the git hash of
> the document itself, the config file, and org-mode’s own code (assuming
> these are kept in 3 separate repos) should allow perfect reproducibility
> (modulo incompatible changes in emacs, I guess).

Sounds interesting.  I'll check it out. 


> It would be interesting for org to have an ability to reference files
> not just by name, but by git revision.  So that you could do something
> like (where 123456 is some git hash):
> #+include: [[gitbare:/path/to/repo::123456:my-org-setup-file.org]]
> and have org take care of checking out the proper revision and loading
> the file in the usual way.  This syntax is already implemented, for
> plain links, in contrib/lisp/org-git-link.el, so it is just a matter
> of making #+include and friends understand links in addition to
> filenames.

Now that is a great idea that allows for both incremental
improvements while still retaining compatibility for old files.

–Rasmus

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