Jens Lechtenboerger <lech...@wi.uni-muenster.de> writes: >> See "14.4 Triggering Publication" section of Org mode manual: >> >> Org uses timestamps to track when a file has changed. The above >> functions normally only publish changed files. You can override this >> [...] > > I propose to change caching and checking of timestamps as in the > attached path. > > Currently, org-publish-cache-file-needs-publishing checks whether > the source file was modified after the cached modification time, > which is fine. However, for each included file B, it checks whether > that was modified more recently than the source file A. If so, the > source is file A is considered to need publishing. This does not > make sense. File A will be published again and again, even if > neither A nor B changed since the last publishing. > > In the patch, I store the current time in the publish cache, not the > source file’s modification time. Also, for included files, I do not > check their timestamp against the one of the source file but against > the cached publish timestamp. > > What do you think?
The patch looks reasonable. Applied, onto main. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=38d1bc67b2 Ideally, it would be nice to have tests as well. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
