Re: Full Free RPG and modification marks

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And huge, huge caveat: I am in no way a Git expert.  I wouldn't even 
consider myself a competent user. I've used it in the past, and I 
understand the basic concepts, but that's about it.

On 10/2/2019 7:48 AM, Joe Pluta wrote:
> Full free pretty much requires a CMS like Git.  And in fact, that's my 
> biggest kick against it.  A LOT of people hate mod marks, but I'm not 
> one of them.  I like to be able to bring up source code and be able to 
> read through the historical changes in a particular routine.
>
> Even with full revision control, it's kind of hard to see the effects 
> of multiple changes, at least for a novice like me.  I think you can 
> get a list of commits between two dates, and then get the differences 
> for each of those commits, but I don't know how to get all that 
> information into a single, comprehensive display.
>
>
> On 10/2/2019 7:37 AM, Kerwin Crawford via RPG400-L wrote:
> > I have not written any full free programs YET!
> > One question.  If you use some sort of mod mark system how do you do it?
> > I have always put comments at the top of the program with the mod 
> > mark and then in positions 1-4 put the mod mark.  For example
> > kc01   // Kerwin Crawford P#2196 kc01
> > kc01   //    The program stopped working when xxx
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > kc01   //   Setll (System:'C ') clients;
> > kc01      Setll (System:Client) clients;
> >
> > Note I do not have any sort of CMS.
> >
> > Kerwin Crawford