Ignore fid field

[jrjdavidson]

Kia ora,

Just testing out kart and it seems to work quite well. I have only one small issue that I'm reaching out to see if anyone can help.

I have a python script where I load a geopackage using geopandas, modify it, and then save it to the geopackage again. I've been tracking features using a separate featureid column as I've found the way that fid is handled in geopandas/ pyogrio a bit confusing as I haven't been able to make the fid value persist across save/loads.

I use the following command to commit the changes to my kart repository using subprocess:
kartCmd = [
"kart",
"import",
OutputGeopackagePath,
"--all-tables",
"--replace-existing",
"--primary-key", 'featureId'
]

It wokrs quite well, except that geopandas always writes a fid column when saving to file, and this is picked up kart and correctly marked as a change. This means that a lot of features are marked as changing when it's only the fid that is changing. When looking at the change log, it appears as quite a large change, when only a few actual features have changed.

This is probably more of a pyogrio issue , but I was wondering if anyone here at any insight on how to handle this case, as it really only becomes an issue when committing features to repository.

Thanks!

[jrjdavidson]

FWIW, the issue with fid changing definitely on my side and not a pyogrio issue. I'm able to run kart correctly now.