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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <g...@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:43:57 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Mon, Oct 4 2010 6:43 am
Subject: Re: An interesting way of keeping track of versions
(snip, I wrote)
>> If you use a version system like CVS or SVN, then you can arrange While such version systems are pretty much necessary for large >> for the version numbers to be included in the code. You can then >> print them out when the program runs. Such systems also allow you >> to retrieve the source of any previous version easily, or to >> look at the differences between them (like the unix diff command). > I should have mentioned, I was talking about one person tinkering, not > a formal setting where the programmer has to sign in blood for code > changes and countless higher ups would have to sign off and the > executable/script changes actually being made by other minions, with > pre-set fallback procedures (and of course the 3 a.m. phone call to > the programmer). programming projects, they are still useful for one person. > Th only discipline needed is not to leave changes in the source code How do you keep track of all the changes, such that you can > without compilation. Otherwise once the diffing code for the current > version and a base version is written, the "tinker, run, observe > output" cycle can proceed totally naturally with fallback to any > version being possible with very little effort. get back to a previous one? Comment out the old lines? Preprocessor #ifder? A stack of listings of old versions? Yes it is possible, and pretty often I do it that way, but -- glen You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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