Re: Org + git branches for derived files

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

it is an interesting question as many things go into the product:

- org file
- your .el files
- org version
- emacs version
- os
- hw
- export commands run

so the desire to keep the product is understandable.  not only is it
effort to find the export commands run, but other stuff might change
out from under you.

could you perhaps export to something more compressible like ascii or
latex only?  and then use whatever org uses to create pdf?  git isn't
supposed to be for recreatable products, but ... is it TRULY trivially
recreatable?  :)

a colophon in the result can be useful maybe.


On 8/13/21, Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Aug 13, 2021, at 7:53 PM, Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Aug 13, 2021, at 6:54 PM, Mark Barton <mbarton98@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Ken,
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>>> You could consider using git-lfs, Large File Support. There is some setup
>>> and then you can say track *.pdf and that will tell git to track the
>>> binary file in a more efficient way. I use this mailing for csv files
>>> that I want to have a snapshot version of with the Jupyter notebook that
>>> used them. Once you are tracking the files with git-lfs, they will be
>>> tracked with the normal git commits.
>>>
>>> I agree that the best practice is not to commit these types of files, but
>>> sometimes it is handy to. By committing the PDF files to the repo, I can
>>> use Working Copy, a git client, on my iPad to quickly reference a
>>> document. Since the iPad cannot run Emacs, I am unable to regenerate the
>>> PDF from there.
>>>
>>> Mark
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>> If you’re using GitHub or gitlab you can place artifacts along side your
>> code repo. One often sees executables and jars there. Typically built and
>> updated by mechanisms on the holster on a  “release” action or similar
>> event
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> I see autocorrect preferred “holster” to “hoster”
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