Re: lilypond source and music sheet database

[David Kastrup]

Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:

> 2013/4/7 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>> Joseph Rushton Wakeling <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> On 04/06/2013 10:50 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote:
>>>> The things is, use git for tracking source files, not pdfs.  If you
>>>> put \version statements in all your .ly files, you can always recreate
>>>> a pdf with appropriate LilyPond version.
>>>>
>>>> Actually, it might make sense to track some pdfs as well, but i'd say
>>>> only the versions that are somewhat final, and i'd create two
>>>> repositories: one with sources, in which all pdfs would be ignored,
>>>> and another one with finished ("published") versions of pdfs - ones
>>>> that are supposed to change rarely.
>>>
>>> Good call.  The trouble with versioning binary or binary-ish files is
>>> not so much about diffs in the sense of being able to see what has
>>> changed (e.g. bzr with the qbzr plugin does nice side-by-side before
>>> and after comparison of graphics files) but that because it can't be
>>> diff'd, each new version almost always adds an amount of data the size
>>> of the entire file to the version history.
>>
>> Have you tried with LilyPond PDFs?  I think they tend to compress on the
>> object level which _might_ work reasonably with some of git's packing
>> techniques.
>>
>> Packing actual executables could possibly also work with reasonable
>> overhead.
>>
>> There would be an advantage to a repository storing _complete_ compiled
>> versions of LilyPond: it would make "git bisect" for the purpose of
>> finding a regression in code or documentation a snap.
>
> Hmm.
> Some time ago i've tried creating a repository containing lily builds,
> but somehow i wasn't able to tell git to actually track all files - it
> seemed that majority of them were ignored.

find -name .gitignore -delete

There is a wagonload of them in a typical LilyPond tree.  Or:

The git add command can be used to add ignored files with the -f (force)
option.

-- 
David Kastrup