html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/2022#issuecomment-430792980,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/2022,430792980,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQzMDc5Mjk4MA==,1217238,2018-10-17T21:17:11Z,2018-10-17T21:17:11Z,MEMBER,"> We are just adding or completely overwriting variables. This works currently (from the docs: ""If mode=’a’, existing variables will be overwritten""). But I'm not sure what happens if there is a conflict between coordinates among the new and old variables.

I'm pretty sure the coordinates will just get overwritten, too, at least as long as the coordinate arrays have the same shape. If they have different shapes, you probably will get an error. We certainly don't do any checks for alignment currently.

> ds1 has some of the same variables as ds2, possibly with overlapping coordinates. In this case, we want to do some kind of append. If there is no overlap between coordinates, then it's straightforward: put the extra values from ds1 into file2.nc.

This is only case I would try to solve to the initial implementation. It's probably 20% of the work (to add a keyword argument like `extend='time'`) and covers 80% of the use-cases.

If we need alignment, I'm sure we could make that work in a follow-up. Certainly it would be less error prone to use.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,309227775
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/2022#issuecomment-377088567,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/2022,377088567,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM3NzA4ODU2Nw==,1217238,2018-03-29T01:10:16Z,2018-03-29T01:10:16Z,MEMBER,"This would probably make sense to think about along-side support for appending along an existing dimension in a netCDF file (https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1672).

I can see a few potential ways to write the syntax. Probably supplying a range of indices along a dimension to write to would make the most sense, e.g., `to_zarr(..., destination={'time': slice(1000, 2000)})` to indicate writing to positions 1000-2000 along the time dimension.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,309227775