Re: literate programming, development log -- ideas? (ominbus reply)

2021-06-14 Thread Greg Minshall
Tim,, again thanks for your workflow/org-growth, and also for the git tutorial in your separate reply to S Banya. cheers, Greg

Re: literate programming, development log -- ideas? (ominbus reply)

2021-06-13 Thread Tim Cross
"Samuel Banya" writes: > Hey Tim, > > Wow that's an awesome idea too aka to create local branches on each machine, > and then switch over the master branch to pull them in. > > Do you have any video references for this kind of thing? > > I like videos first, and then documentation. > > It

Re: literate programming, development log -- ideas? (ominbus reply)

2021-06-13 Thread Samuel Banya
Hey Tim, Wow that's an awesome idea too aka to create local branches on each machine, and then switch over the master branch to pull them in. Do you have any video references for this kind of thing? I like videos first, and then documentation. It would really help me out since I'd love to try

Re: literate programming, development log -- ideas? (ominbus reply)

2021-06-13 Thread Tim Cross
Greg Minshall writes: > Tim, > > thanks for your comments. > >> A lot depends on whether what you want is an org file which documents >> the current state of play or one which is more similar to a lab book >> which contains a more chronological type evolution of ideas and >> experiments. I

Re: literate programming, development log -- ideas? (ominbus reply)

2021-06-12 Thread Greg Minshall
Tim, thanks for your comments. > A lot depends on whether what you want is an org file which documents > the current state of play or one which is more similar to a lab book > which contains a more chronological type evolution of ideas and > experiments. I often setup completely separate org

Re: literate programming, development log -- ideas? (ominbus reply)

2021-06-12 Thread Tim Cross
"Samuel Banya" writes: > Not sure if it counts as off-topic for this thread, but does everyone use Git > to manage their Org docs and notes? > > I ask because of Greg's previous post. > > I've noticed that some times after git merge events across a few machines > (ex: I forgot I had already

Re: literate programming, development log -- ideas? (ominbus reply)

2021-06-12 Thread Tim Cross
Eric S Fraga writes: > On Tuesday, 8 Jun 2021 at 20:15, Greg Minshall wrote: >> Eric, when you use something RCS-like as your version control system, i >> assume that makes grepping to find some old note easy enough. but, >> these days i tend to use git. when (assuming) you use git, do you

Re: literate programming, development log -- ideas? (ominbus reply)

2021-06-11 Thread Christian Barthel
On Tue, Jun 08 2021, Samuel Banya wrote: > Not sure if it counts as off-topic for this thread, but does > everyone use Git to manage their Org docs and notes? I store my "main" org file in git and commit daily (*). I have activated magit-wip-mode for keeping some kind of a backup in case I

Re: literate programming, development log -- ideas? (ominbus reply)

2021-06-11 Thread Samuel Banya
Now this idea I like! Thanks for this, I didn't think about using the Git repo as a SECONDARY backup source. Also, using Nextcloud sounds like a neat idea. I'm into Self-Hosting stuff myself nowadays but am starting out small (ex: Just bought an old Dell Optiplex from eBay, put 2 HDDs into

Re: literate programming, development log -- ideas? (ominbus reply)

2021-06-11 Thread Juan Manuel MacĂ­as
Samuel Banya writes: > I'm okay with git repos for dot files or some kind of programming > project but yeah, I've been debating something else for an org based > repo cause I too have almost had my 'life.org' be completely destroyed > with a merge event. I have all my everyday Org documents in a

Re: literate programming, development log -- ideas? (ominbus reply)

2021-06-10 Thread Samuel Banya
I actually nuke Emacs's ability to do backups with this in my config: ** Nuke Emacs' ability to make backups and autosaves since its annoying and too bloated #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (setq make-backup-files nil) (setq auto-save-default nil) #+END_SRC Reason being is that its one

Re: literate programming, development log -- ideas? (ominbus reply)

2021-06-10 Thread Samuel Wales
undo [or equivalent] in buffer. no saving to disk. emacs auto save to an auto-expiring directory emacs backups every save to an auto-expiring directory git snapshots when i feel like it. search as needed. branching in the text itself, by use of comments above if it is incoming/new and below

Re: literate programming, development log -- ideas? (ominbus reply)

2021-06-10 Thread Greg Minshall
Maxim, thanks for =git log -G...=. cheers, Greg

Re: literate programming, development log -- ideas? (ominbus reply)

2021-06-09 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
Eric S Fraga writes: >> Not sure if it counts as off-topic for this thread, but does everyone >> use Git to manage their Org docs and notes? > > I use a variety of version control systems but for multiple computers I > use unison to keep them all synchronised. I use Mercurial for all my

Re: literate programming, development log -- ideas? (ominbus reply)

2021-06-09 Thread Maxim Nikulin
On 09/06/2021 00:21, Samuel Banya wrote: I've noticed that some times after git merge events across a few machines (ex: I forgot I had already pushed notes for my private notes on one machine, and had to merge the results from another machine), I'll get weird "HEAD" and "END" statements

Re: literate programming, development log -- ideas? (ominbus reply)

2021-06-09 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Tuesday, 8 Jun 2021 at 20:15, Greg Minshall wrote: > Eric, when you use something RCS-like as your version control system, i > assume that makes grepping to find some old note easy enough. but, > these days i tend to use git. when (assuming) you use git, do you have > some easy way to say

Re: literate programming, development log -- ideas? (ominbus reply)

2021-06-09 Thread Eric S Fraga
> Not sure if it counts as off-topic for this thread, but does everyone > use Git to manage their Org docs and notes? I use a variety of version control systems but for multiple computers I use unison to keep them all synchronised. -- : Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org

Re: literate programming, development log -- ideas? (ominbus reply)

2021-06-08 Thread Samuel Banya
Not sure if it counts as off-topic for this thread, but does everyone use Git to manage their Org docs and notes? I ask because of Greg's previous post. I've noticed that some times after git merge events across a few machines (ex: I forgot I had already pushed notes for my private notes on

Re: literate programming, development log -- ideas? (ominbus reply)

2021-06-08 Thread Greg Minshall
Juan Manuel, Eric, Jack, Arne, thank you all very much for your thoughts. i've sort of come to grips with Jack's + Arne's, solution, and defined a "capture template" that adds something to a pre-named headline. (note and capture are among the org features of which i have maintained to date a