sqlite: fast path when nothing to save
If we have no new data to save, we should try to do anything. Doing something
concurrently is hard enough. If we can avoid doing it at all that would be
great.
syntax: re
/figures/[^/]+\.png$
^html/
\.pyc$
~$
\.swp$
\.orig$
\.rej$
^tests/.*\.err$
^tests/easy_run.sh$
^build/
^dist/
^MANIFEST$
^docs/tutorials/.*\.rst$
\.ico$
tests/\.testtimes
^docs/training/graphs/
^docs/training/html/
^docs/training/index.html
^docs/training/graphviz-images/
^docs/training/img/
^docs/training/output/
^docs/training/pandocfilters/