Alejandro,

let me be a bit selfish. http://vfpx.codeplex.com/releases/view/614943 offers a tool that will include in VFP IDE. It let's you regenerate, as Fernando names it, the binaries with FoxBin2Prg from VFP IDE.

It's assigned to
-quickly create text versions and commit changes (what is the main goal)
-create binaries from text representation

My approach is as follows:

+ FoxBin2Prg creates file-per-class. Much easier to merge and search.
+ commit text where usefull
- this will store pictures and other binary resources as binary, but they rarely change
- dbf, dbc that belong to the project as binary (there is no use in having them as text, yet)
+ Using the tool above
- with FoxBin2PRG to create text and recreate binaries on PJX level from IDE
- to commit changes to current branch
- to raise git history (gitk)
- to raise git shell (git-bash)
+ do any git related work except straight, backup like commits on bash
+ Sometimes there is some forward / backward movement on the git side of the problem. If this is finished, I can regenerate the binaries, I do not need it inbetween. For that I do not use git hooks, I rather start it from VFP menu. So automation for regeneration is not my prefered way.
- OTOH sometimes, when I look for a code snippet, I just do
# generate text, commit
# check out old code
# open the related vc2 file
# copy the code snippet
# paste into vcx
# checkout recent branch
# create text and commit
-- this is not the most sophisticated way, but much faster then two times binary regeneration


>Thank you for the answers Lutz and Craig,0
>
>If the binaries are not stored they need to be regenerated when you check out a branch, but only if the associated text file changes during the checkout. Do you know a trick to automate this step? Perhaps git has a hook that makes this easy.