About one class/function per module

Diez B. Roggisch deets at nospam.web.de
Tue Nov 3 06:52:20 EST 2009


Peng Yu wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:39 PM, alex23 <wuwei23 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Peng Yu <pengyu... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I don't think that this is a problem that can not be overcome. A
>>> simple solution might be to associate a unique identifier to each
>>> file, so that even the filename has been changed, the new version and
>>> the old version can still be identified as actually the same file.
>>
>> Or, again, you could work _with_ the tools you're using in the way
>> they're meant to be used, rather than re-inventing the whole process
>> of version control yourself.
> 
> I'm not trying to reinvent a new version control. But due to this
> drawback, I avoid use a version control system. Rather, I compressed
> my source code in a tar file whenever necessary. But if a version
> control system has this capability, I'd love to use it. And I don't
> think that no version control system support this is because of any
> technical difficult but rather because of practical issue (maybe it
> takes a lot efforts to add this feature to an existing version control
> system?).

There are those people who realize if *everything* they encounter needs
adjustment to fit their needs, their needs need adjustment. 

Others fight an uphill battle & bicker about things not being as they want
them.

Don't get me wrong - innovation often comes from scratching ones personal
itch. But you seem to be suffering from a rather bad case of
neurodermatitis.

Diez





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