GNU bug report logs - #67687
Feature request: automatic tags management

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jon Eskin <eskinjp <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 11:45:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #155 received at 67687 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
Cc: 67687 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eskinjp <at> gmail.com, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de,
 stefankangas <at> gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#67687: Feature request: automatic tags management
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2024 11:41:11 +0100

>a) We won't add new files to the index, because we (apparently) can't 
>simply use the project's list of files -- there is no guarantee that it 
>matches the fileset that the original author of the TAGS file had in mind.
>
>b) There is no way to pick up the --regex options used for generating 
>the original TAGS, or any other options we don't know about. So if we 
>were to just use the logic of regenerating tags for newly changed files, 
>we would end up with a mix of tags in some files based on the set of 
>--regex used in the past, and with tags for new files based on the 
>configured set of --regex options.

Maybe the TAGS files should contain information to regenerate them?
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