On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Anton Aylward <li...@antonaylward.com> wrote: > There is no need for a complete understanding of every field in every > possible file, only an adequate understanding of the ones I use.
You need to understand *every* field in the files you do use, and there is no format that is that well understood. > There argument about a complete understanding is a weak one. There are > many fields, engineering, medicine, agriculture, geology/mining, > chemistry, politics and more, where we've had an incomplete > understanding and still do, but that has never discouraged us from doing > our best effort to work with that and to experiment. Feel free to experiment, but you will break your files. > The real advantage we have here over many of those fields is, as Patric > points out, that we can make backups and roll-back our experimental > mistakes. Do keep backups, you'll need them. > But if we're afraid to experiment then this becomes a set of religious > practices, a hide-bound tradition obsessed with conservatism. This is getting ridiculous. You have a perfectly workable way of doing things (edit the companion xmp files) so there's no situation where you really need to edit the raw file. If you still want to do it go ahead, those backups will be handy. Pedro ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list Darktable-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
