Max, > > i wonder if it would be reasonable to add an option such that, when > > tangling, `org-babel-tangle` would not write a file with the > > already-existing contents of the target file? > > Are you going to celebrate a decade of the feature request? > I agree with you, make is wide spread and fast tool that is really > convenient in simple cases.
hah -- i should have waited a few weeks! > Some hash-based build systems are mentioned in that thread. Since that > time more more similar tools have appeared, e.g. buck, > reimplementations of DJB's redo https://cr.yp.to/redo.html i think different people will settle on different build tools. > It seems `compare-buffer-substrings` has more logic than just byte to > byte comparison. Is it to handle alternatives for unicode character > alternatives? For tangled buffer it should be size that is checked > first... you are right, it definitely makes sense to look first at size. (which is what, e.g., rsync(1) does.) also, probably i needn't have mentioned `compare-buffer-substrings` -- i was really just trying to suggest "simple" (which maybe i anti-did?). cheers, Greg
