gshenaut wrote:
I really appreciate the project functionality of BBedit. However, I'm
not sure it's the optimal approach to the problem, and I just wanted
to write up some thoughts I had on the subject.
This is conceptually pretty interesting, but one minor point, or not so
minor for some people,
involving things I don't use such as CVS or Subversion
...namely, people who *do* use version control. :) It's actually the
reverse of what you're describing: I don't think BBEdit projects know
anything about version control and vice-versa. You put folders and files
under version control. The potential problem is that an OS X alias is,
as far as a version control system is concerned, another file -- and
it's not a file you really *want* under version control. The advantage
with the BBEdit project system as it exists currently (which is similar
to TextMate's and a few others in this respect) is that it avoids this
issue. I can have the *source* of my project under version control
because it's all in a folder but I can have other files/folders in other
places around the system linked in the project without having them in a
project folder. In your conception, as I understand it, projects would
have to have one and only one folder as their top level. This would
still be doable for those of us who work with version control systems
regularly -- we could have "ProjectName/src" as the only folder under
version control, for instance -- but if that were the only way to handle
it, it would be a little less flexible than the BBEdit system is now.
Having said that, it's not a bad feature request for BBEdit to support
OS X aliases in the way you're describing -- it'd do what you want, and
it wouldn't change functionality for people who wouldn't be using it.
There wouldn't even need to be a preference option, I don't think.
(People who don't want OS X alias files under version control should
just know not to do that!)
- Watts
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