Re: Removing sequence numbers only in download

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 10:10 AM Edu Fajardo <edu.fajardo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I totally agree on the commit dates over the source date. However, the
dates in the source are required by the development team and they wouldn't
want to remove it... at least for now.

I think this will be the prevailing attitude at most RPG shops until
it becomes normal for people to have all their source in stream files
and tracked by Git or similar. As long as source lives in source
members, there will always be the temptation to look at the date
field.

Hence, my query on any tool that can remove the sequence numbers with ease.

It's not particularly hard to create your own tool to download source
that includes the date but not the sequence number. In fact I've done
this for myself, because I do work at a place that still cares about
the dates, yet I use Mercurial on my PC for some of my projects.

Integration with RDi is *probably* not that hard either, though I
don't have any experience with this.

Or, if you want to eliminate the sequence number once it's already
downloaded, that is perhaps even easier. There may be a way to create
an RDi macro to do this. (I can't remember if Buck Calabro has already
talked about this very thing.)

John Y.