If you copy the files, then yes, dt will see them as different. Another
option is to configure your development version to not write sidecar
files (the worse that can happen then is to import a sidecar file
produced by the stable version by mistake).
Owen Mays <r.owen.m...@gmail.com> writes:
> Thanks Mathieu, I hadn't thought about the sidecars.
>
> It sounds like I should make a sandbox folder, and copy some of my NEF
> files into it. Then import them into my testing version of darktable.
> In that scenario, darktable will think these are "different" files,
> right? So the sidecars for my main images will be unaffected?
>
> -Owen
>
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Matthieu Moy
> <matthieu....@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>
> BTW: not using the same library is one thing, but if you edit the
> same
> photos, one instance of dt will overwrite the sidecar files
> written by
> the other, possibly in an incompatible way (sidecar files written
> by a
> recent version of dt can not always be read by older version).
>
> In short, to be safe: don't try to edit the same files on with
> both
> instances.
>
>
>
> Owen Mays <r.owen.m...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Thank you Matthieu and Stephane,
> >
> > I did not know about the :memory: option, that is very
> interesting.
> >
> > For most testing I think I'd rather keep a persistent library
> (so I
> > can quickly test changes without having to import images again),
> so I
> > will use Stephane's suggestion. My "main" darktable install is
> also
> > built from git (at some point there was a feature I wanted that
> hadn't
> > made it into the Arch Linux package repos), but I trust the
> existing
> > developers a bit more than I trust myself monkeying with code
> I'm
> > unfamiliar with. And I do run backups before building a new
> version
> > from the git repo. This "sandbox" is mostly so I don't have to
> worry
> > about backing up before every time I fiddle with the code.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Owen
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 5:05 AM, Stéphane Gourichon
> > <stephane_darkta...@gourichon.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Le 29/02/2016 06:50, Owen Mays a écrit :
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > I'd like to start contributing a bit (looking at bug/feature
> > postings on the redmine page). Before I try anything, I want
> > to make sure I'm not going to screw up my darktable install
> > and image library by mistake.
> >
> >
> > I know I can build a separate version (just specify a
> > different target path when I run the build.sh script). But
> > that version is opening the same image library as my "main"
> > version of darktable. Is there anyway to set up a "sandboxed"
> > version of darktable with its own separate image library to
> > avoid the possibility of damaging my main library?
> >
> >
> > *** (1) Calling a specific sandboxed install of dartkable from
> any
> > environment
> >
> > There's a solution that you may like better than specifying :
> > memory: if like me you want a real persistent library for your
> > compiled version of darktable.
> >
> > I've been having for years a simple script for that, like this :
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> > DARKTABLE_INSTALL_ROOT=~/some_path_where_darktable_is_installed
> > exec ~/${DARKTABLE_INSTALL_ROOT}/bin/darktable --library ~/$
> > {DARKTABLE_INSTALL_ROOT}/dtlib "$@"
> >
> > I put this script in in ~/bin/darktable-git
> >
> > Many distributions will automatically add ~/bin/ to your shell
> > path if it exists (on login, so logout first if you just created
> > it).
> >
> > You can even associate JPEG or RAW files (or even directories)
> to
> > darktable_git to be able do open specific files with
> >
> >
> >
> > *** (2) Bonus: out-of-source build
> >
> > Building out of source is supported by darktable and I highly
> > recommend it. (ref1 ref2).
> >
> > Personally I adjust build.sh like this :
> >
> > INSTALL_PREFIX="../darktable.installtree"
> > BUILD_DIR="../darktable.buildtree"
> >
> > then :
> > * the source tree is kept pristine,
> > * build tree can be whatever order (or even mess) the build
> > systems wants it to be without any problem (it's big, you can
> even
> > nuke it at any time and still run the program),
> > * and "make install" installs everything in a clean hierarchy.
> >
> > Though I don't consider it proven, AFAIK combined with (1)
> running
> > darktable like this cannot interfere with other (main)
> > installation.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > --
> > Stéphane Gourichon
> >
> > -
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