Re: New RFE related to RPG Formatting

[Greg Wilburn <gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Having the date of edit on lines of code is an immense help when diagnosing issues... I don't care how well documented something is. 

It is a very common practice to document changes in the "header" area comments - then you just filter on lines changed that day.

What a nightmare if this doesn't work properly.

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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Glenn Gundermann
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 1:45 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] New RFE related to RPG Formatting

Hi Kurt,

I would vote for it but I think it's still updating too many dates.
Even if formatting changes are done, why would you want the date to show a
change was made?
A change date to me should indicate that code was actually changed and not
just formatted differently.

Yours truly,

Glenn Gundermann
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On 22 September 2015 at 11:30, Kurt Anderson <Kurt.Anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I noticed that when formatting source, it was marking existing lines as
> changed so the date changed on those lines updated, even when no
> indentation changes were applied to the line.  I'd like it to not modify
> lines that don't need to be in order to preserve the date changed value.
>
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=77323
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