Re: Full Free RPG and modification marks

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.