Re: Full Free RPG and modification marks

But that really doesn't do what I want.  Especially if code is deleted.  Without mod marks, I have no idea that the line was ever there, so how would I put my cursor on it to "blame" someone?  And if a line is changed three times, does it show you all three changes?

I guess the point here is that mod marks and diff engines are fundamentally different approaches to source change visibility, and it's reasonable to prefer one over the other.  Git is not "better" in and of itself, it's just different.  The tooling may make it better for a number of things, but it doesn't fit as well for what I do most often, which is forensic analysis.

Not being a hater, just differentiating between "new" and "improved".


On 10/3/2019 11:49 AM, Brian May wrote:

And that comes down to tooling. I don't know what RDi has as I spend 95% of my time doing work in Node these days.

However, in VS Code when I am working on an application, I have an extension called Git Blame installed. Whenever my cursor is on a line, I can look at the bottom of the IDE and it will say "Blame Joe Pluta (2 months ago)" for example. If I need more info, I simply click that "Blame" line and the repo, GitHub in our case, opens with all of the info about that commit. So I see changes to that file and any others that were changed in that commit as well as the description for that commit.

So I actually get all the info you mention and more without scrolling up to the top of the program to look at the comments that go with a mod mark. I'm sure there is a plugin for Eclipse with similar functionality, but again, I don't spend enough time there to know.

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Subject: 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.