On Aug 31, 2011, at 1:26 PM, Fred Cooke wrote: > While we're on the subject of file formats, PLEASE, stop updating time > stamps in the header/comment when NOTHING else has changed. I can show you > commits to hw repositories with 30 eroneous files commited and only two > containing actual changes. The developer could have reviewed the changes > before committing, BUT, I'd argue that hardware devs are doing well to be > using version control at all, and I'd also argue that the level of > discipline required to not do such commits is above and beyond the call of > duty. This really amounts to a quite subtle (if you're not using version > control on your hardware designs) bad behaviour on KiCAD's part. Is there > any chance of rectifying it? To do it properly from a hw designers point of > view amounts to diffing all changed files, adding those with real changes to > the cache (if git), checking out the ones that have no real changes in them, > then committing. To go back and find the best place to fork a hardware > design where this has been done on every commit is an utter nightmare. It > also implies that saving the project does not keep track of which files have > been edited and which have not. That seems a little dirty, don't you guys > think? I'd be up for taking a crack at fixing it, but someone with intimate > knowledge of the KiCAD source would likely do it in 1/10 the time. Thoughts? > Time to promote good practice in version control for the hardware designers > on your team? :-)
I will just chime in and say, "Amen!" I can think of a half-dozen different electronics-design packages that have time stamps that are the only things in the design that change (perhaps as the result of a compile) and those changes are bogus. It's easy enough to revert them in Subversion, but they shouldn't have changed at all in the first place. -a _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
