Re: Full Free RPG and modification marks

It depends on shop standards.  We require exactly the process you outline.  If you don't, it's a severe breach of protocol.  Not that it never happens, but it never happens without reason.

I agree that Git has benefits, but it also has drawbacks.  As a simple case, if a mod adds a line, and a second mod deletes it, I don't know of an easy way to see both in a single display.  And that view is often crucial when identifying why something acted one way for a month and then stopped acting that way.

Again, I'm not saying Git is bad.  I'm just saying that mod marks have a real use.


On 10/3/2019 11:12 AM, Mark Murphy wrote:

Here's the problem with those marks. They are always incomplete unless you
never delete or change a line of code, but always comment out old code and
add replacement code on a new line. I have never met anyone anal enough to
do that 100% of the time. Doesn't mean that person doesn't exist, but just
that I have never met them. With a repository like Git, the computer does
it change tracking, and never misses a change, and never does it in a way
that can't be tracked. The history, in many clients, is color coded so you
know what lines were removed, and which were added, and you code doesn't
end up cluttered with endless comments that are just dead lines of code.