WRT keeping DFMs as text to facilitate diffing, list members might not be aware 
of Beyond Compare <http://www.scootersoftware.com/> ’s ability to diff binary 
DFMs.  Once you configure something like TortoiseSVN to use BC as your diff 
tool, it significantly reduces the issue of binary vs text DFMs, among all the 
other niceties in BC3 such as 3-way merging, etc.

 

I’m not particularly advocating keeping DFMs as binary, just throwing this out 
there for those who may not be aware of it.

 

While I haven’t used Git, I concur with Jolyon’s initial comment that I don’t 
think there’s anything specific to keep in mind about using Delphi with any one 
particular VCS system.

 

From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jolyon Smith
Sent: Thursday, 29 May 2014 10:20 a.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi & Git

 

There is nothing particularly noteworthy about using Delphi with Git that isn't 
also applicable when using Delphi with any other version control system, such 
as keeping keeping DFM files in text form rather than binary, to facilitate 
diffíng etc etc.  Other than that it is simply a question of the differences in 
how you use Git as opposed to those other systems (e.g. in establishing files 
or filetypes to be ignored for the purposes of versioning etc).



 

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