I hope I see what you mean. You refering to generation of text for changed classes only?

So you use the timestamp to see what is changed at a given moment.

My code just look what is changed (by simply storing the old timestamp outside the vcx). My problem is that the change must not be from a nearby date. I just have to figure out any change. Stupid me might just commit a change from january 2014. So I just test for not identical timestamp for a given classlib/class

>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.