From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: David Masterson <dsmasterson@outlook.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: CUSTOM_ID vs ID
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 08:38:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r269tkfk.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BYAPR07MB5734C9593C996B64E8C02A72A5DD0@BYAPR07MB5734.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> (David Masterson's message of "Mon, 29 Jul 2019 04:23:18 +0000")
Hello,
David Masterson <dsmasterson@outlook.com> writes:
> Can you talk a little bit about how IDs are generated so that they are
> absolutely unique?
See `org-id-new'. By default, it uses "uuidgen" command.
> IDs sound like something that would be useful for synchronizing
> information between two (or more) separate Org systems - the ID could be
> updated whenever a change occurs and then used to determine what needs
> synchronization. True?
I think this is different. ID property is meant to never change once
created. If you update it, you lose the reference to the headline, which
defeats the intended purpose.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-29 6:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-27 23:35 CUSTOM_ID vs ID Nathan Neff
2019-07-28 8:10 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-07-29 4:23 ` David Masterson
2019-07-29 6:38 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2019-08-02 4:54 ` David Masterson
2019-07-30 0:38 ` Nathan Neff
2019-08-01 7:55 ` Richard Lawrence
2019-08-09 11:13 ` Adam Porter
2019-08-02 14:53 ` Nathan Neff
2019-08-09 11:12 ` Adam Porter
2019-08-18 0:53 ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2019-08-18 10:40 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-08-18 14:24 ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2019-08-18 15:05 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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