On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 12:48 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > We have lines starting with a letter followed by up to 16 decimal > > numbers > > We are NOT going with another position-determines-meaning file format.
May I suggest that while deciding on a file format and choosing how it will work it would be good to consider the diffs that will be generated when managing a projecting using an SCM. I have thought about this a little bit and it does seem like it'll never be possible to make it amazing but I'm sure improvements over the current format can be made. It would be great to be able to look at a diff and instantly see that a component was moved or that a few traces were moved from one layer to another. At the moment even the smallest of changes creates large and complicated diffs, sometimes with lots of unrelated changes. An example of this can be seen at [1] where a single footprint was moved from one side of the board to the other. The commit message is fine for saying what has changed but it's important to be able to review changes made before committing. Thanks, Richard [1] https://www.studentrobotics.org/cgit/boards/power-hw.git/commit/?id=70118c54cf0ffe6ec6a1e98ff2d8207675d95645 _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
