On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Dan Covill <[email protected]> wrote:
> Inspired by Father Ted's dictum, Bless you, my son! Another convert! > My biggest problem is that I don't (yet) know what I'm doing. Oh, yeah. Me, too. > The bottom line: Over 40 years I've developed my own system of > documenting changes and versions and saving the source code, but this is > better! That's great! > As noted elsewhere, many VCS assume text files and don't do so well in > detecting changes in "binary" files like SCXes. I didn't find any big > problem here - sure, you can't "read" the changes, but just knowing > exactly which ones changed is a fine thing. Or you can consider running one of the tools folks here have mentioned to export your DBF-based power tools to text equivalents and save those in parallel. On some projects, I've found the ability to look back and figure out how something worked before I "fixed" it to be invaluable. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
