Re: Full Free RPG and modification marks

[Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just wrote my first full free program yesterday. Very weird, but quite free-ing 😊

In case any of you are interested in becoming part of the Git ecosystem, check out the IT Jungle article on iForGit, a new Git client for IBMi created by you-guessed-it: Me.

https://www.itjungle.com/2019/09/30/ibm-i-startup-tackles-awkward-git-integration/

As long as git is installed, you can be up and running and export an entire library to Git in minutes. And you can continue to use your source files for master editing with SEU, RDI, VS Code, Notepad++, EDTF or whatever.

Then diff becomes your friend. With the many diff viewers you can catch changes quickly and eliminate source member copies and leaving dead code in place. 

No matter what you do if you don't have version control start learning git.  

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Phn: (612) 315-1745

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message: 2
date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 07:50:19 -0500
from: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Full Free RPG and modification marks

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