Hi, I noticed a difference between how gridarta updates the map headers and how my patched version of gcrossedit handles it:
- gcrossedit handles the "Created" and "Modified" fields like a ChangeLog, appending a new "Modified" line whenever a change is made and the date or author doesn't match the previous entry. - gridarta seems to always replace the first "Modified" line, regardless of what was there before. The fact that gridarta only considers the first "Modified" entry and ignores the other ones leads to strange situations, like in this example with /darcap/darcap/circus/fz_olobby: Revision 9710 looked like this: Created: 2008-07-24 Chad Opperman | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Modified: 2008-07-26 Chad Opperman | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Modified: 2008-08-01 Raphaël Quinet After editing (presumably with gridarta), r9751 looks like this: Created: 2008-07-24 Chad Opperman | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Modified: 2008-08-18 Rick Tanner Modified: 2008-08-01 Raphaël Quinet The second "Modified" entry is still there, but the first one has been replaced, resulting in dates that are in the wrong order. What should be the appropriate behavior in this case? Should there be only one "Modified" line in each map header (in which case both gridarta and gcrossedit should be modified to delete other lines) or should "Modified" lines be collected like a mini ChangeLog (in which case gridarta should be modified to append instead of replacing the first "Modified" line)? Personally, I like the mini ChangeLog approach because it can give useful clues about the history of the map to those who get the mapinfo without having SVN access. This is also useful if a map goes through several iterations before being imported in SVN, or when external contributors submit patches without having SVN access. But I could also understand the desire to keep the map header small and only keep a single "Modified" line. -Raphaël _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
