Re: org-publish not publishing changed files

[Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz>]

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos <at> hp.com> writes:
> Aidan Gauland <aidalgol <at> no8wireless.co.nz> wrote:
> > Yes it does.  Sorry, I should have worded that differently.  I meant
> > that I have been repeatedly wiping ~/.org-timestamps/ in hopes that it
> > will not get screwed up again and think none of my files have changed,
> > and never re-publishes changed files (after an initial org-publish
> > operation).  I think I have run into a bug in org-mode and I really
> > want to track it down, so I thought the best place to start would be
> > to look at what the timestamps are (in a human-readable format).
> > 
> 
> OK - thanks. I started taking a look at the code, but I'm not getting
> anywhere fast, so the more eyes we can have on it the better.

Actually, we can forget about the timestamps.  I finally figured out
what circumstances under which this bug happens: I am trying to export
from a system where some of the symlinks in the project are broken.

Here's my setup: I sync my home directory on my laptop and desktop
computers using Unison.  In my project, I have symlinks to files in
~/images/, but since my laptop hard drive has less capacity than the
one in my desktop, I only keep ~/images/ on my desktop.  As a result
of this setup, some symlinks in my org-mode project are broken on my
laptop.  When I publish my project on my desktop, where no symlinks
are broken, org-publish behaves as expected; when I publish the same
project on my laptop, where some symlinks are broken, org-publish
appears to succeed, but publishes no changes.

I am really sorry for such a delayed response, but my university
semester started up again, which has been really hectic because of the
Feburary Christchurch earthquake.

Kind regards,
Aidan Gauland