Hi Lutz

I've been looking for a way to handle a really large vcx I inherited. What I'm wishing to find is a method to determine which classes changed across all vcxs, generate the text for each of these classes - and not the entire set of classes in the vcx - basically pretending that only the classes are changing, and disregarding the vcx itself.

To that end,

I modified Calvin Hsia's decodetimestamp procedure (so it does not have to be stored in a library) below and use a SQL to find the classes like so

SELECT ;
LEFT(objname,80) as classname,;
decodetimestamp(timestamp) as tUpdated ;
FROM monsterlibrary.vcx ;
WHERE ;
!EMPTY(monsterlibrary.timestamp) AND ;
YEAR(decodetimestamp(monsterlibrary.timestamp))=2016 ;
ORDER BY 1 ;
INTO CURSOR NEWclasses

*PROCEDURE DecodeTimeStamp(nTimestamp as Number) as Datetime && see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/filetimetodosdatetime.asp
LPARAMETERS nTimeStamp
IF m.nTimeStamp = 0
RETURN {/:}
ENDIF

nDate=BITRSHIFT(m.nTimestamp,16)
nTime=BITAND(m.nTimestamp,2^16-1)

nYear=BITAND(BITRSHIFT(m.nDate,9),2^8-1)+1980
nMonth=BITAND(BITRSHIFT(m.nDate,5),2^4-1)
nDay=BITAND(m.nDate,2^5-1)

nHr=BITAND(BITRSHIFT(m.nTime,11),2^5-1)
nMin=BITAND(BITRSHIFT(m.nTime,5),2^6-1)
nSec=BITAND(m.nTime,2^5-1)

RETURN DATETIME(m.nYear,m.nMonth,m.nDay,m.nHr,m.nMin,m.nSec)


>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.