Re: Why does mathematica randomly rewrite notebooks?
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- Subject: [mg54879] Re: [mg54838] Why does mathematica randomly rewrite notebooks?
- From: jmt <jmt at dxdydz.net>
- Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 01:34:24 -0500 (EST)
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A few remarks : 1 - CVS is line oriented, and lines MUST be less than 80 characters long, while Mathematica notebooks make no assumptions on line length. This might explain the changes you have noticed. 2 - Mathematica uses a cache, handling this cache in a versioning system can be viewed as non-sense. The company "Analog Insydes" discusses this point and provides a set of utilities for handling notebooks with CVS : http://www.analog-insydes.de/ai/utilities/ I have used these utilities up to version 5.0 without trouble of any kind. 3 - When notebooks contain some information that can be modified by the versioning system, the FrontEnd will report a warning. If this warning can oftenly be ignored, users might nevertheless have some doubt about the versioning strategy, and there is no way to avoid this with CVS. 4 - After using CVS for some years, I switched to subversion. This system is much more adequate for revision control than CVS is, especially for files like mathematica notebooks. I do not modify the notebooks before storing them in the repository (meaning I do NOT strip the cache off, even if this can be viewed as a loss of disk resource), because disk space is no longer a problem and because Mathematica projects seldom span over hundreds of files. If I have no experience in migrating a project from CVS to subversion, all new projects are now handled by subversion. jmt On 2005 03 04 11:07, Josef Karthauser wrote: > I'm trying to manage mathematica notebooks in a revision control system > and it is really bugging me that mathematica writes notebooks with > trivial changes seemingly randomly. Does anyone know why? > > Here's an example: > > @@ -860,7 +862,7 @@ > \(Tuu[i, j] Xd[j] // ToFlavor[natbasis]\), "\n", > \(\(\(% /. > x : Xd[_] \[RuleDelayed] \(TransformIndexFlavor[ > - natbasis, > {\[Lambda]form}]\)[x]\)\(\n\)\(\[IndentingNewLine]\) + > natbasis, {\[Lambda]form}]\)[x]\)\(\[IndentingNewLine]\)\(\n\) \) > (*\[IndentingNewLine]\(% // SumExpansion[natbasis /@ {i, j}]\) // > SumExpansion[\[Lambda]form[k]]\[IndentingNewLine]%%\[IndentingNewLine]*) > \), "\ > > The line starting with '-' shows what was there, and the line starting > with '+' shows that change that mathematica made at the last save. > > Notice the at the order of the \n and the IndentingNewLine have been > reversed. This appears to happen at random. > > WRI, is there anything I can do to prevent this, or is it a bug/feature? > > Joe > -- > Josef Karthauser (joe at tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ > FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ > Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ -- Puissance d'un coton-tige : deux ouates ...
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- Why does mathematica randomly rewrite notebooks?
- From: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
- Why does mathematica randomly rewrite notebooks?