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Development Builds
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 11:39 am
by Robert
One thing I don't like about our development builds is the file dates. (Are they the date the build was first made?)
I would much prefer it if the file dates reflected the last time the file actually changed. Is that possible?
Re: Development Builds
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 2:51 pm
by Josef Templ
As far as I know this is not possible but I am not expert enough
to be sure. I haven't seen any file dates stored anywhere in git.
I have given up looking at file dates but only look into the change log.
- Josef
Re: Development Builds
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2016 6:28 am
by Ivan Denisov
There is commit hash in
System/Rsrc/Strings.
You can see the history of any file in repository.
And match the dates it has been changed.
With that hash also you can easily reset repository to the state of this build.
Re: Development Builds
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2016 8:32 pm
by Robert
Ivan Denisov wrote:...
I didn't really understand any of this, but that probably doesn't matter as it didn't seem to answer my question.
1 - What am I looking for in the Strings file?
2 - Where do I type those git strings?
I used to know how to find the "DOS box" in Windows XP, but now I have switched to Windows 7 I can't even find that.
Re: Development Builds
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 8:53 am
by DGDanforth
Robert wrote:
I used to know how to find the "DOS box" in Windows XP, but now I have switched to Windows 7 I can't even find that.
If 7 is like 10 then you "run cmd"
-Doug
Re: Development Builds
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 11:50 am
by Robert
DGDanforth wrote:If 7 is like 10 then you "run cmd"
Didn't help!
But I have now been shown two ways:
1 - Click the tool bar start button, then type "cmd" into the "Search" box
2 - Hold the <Windows> & <R> keys simultaneously, the type "cmd" into the "Open" box.
I just find this stuff hard!
Re: Development Builds
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 4:19 pm
by Zinn
Yes, it is hard to start with a new system. It is out of date. Windows 7 has no support since January 2015.
- Helmut
Re: Development Builds
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 6:35 pm
by Ivan Denisov
That is not Command Terminal, but
git bash. If you installed
https://git-scm.com/ it will be in popup menu.
Re: Development Builds
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 1:13 am
by DGDanforth
Robert wrote:DGDanforth wrote:If 7 is like 10 then you "run cmd"
I just find this stuff hard!
I totally agree!
I give Microsoft an "F" for user interface design and it it is getting worse!
Re: Development Builds
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 9:15 am
by Robert
Ivan Denisov wrote:That is not Command Terminal, but git bash.
I tried that first, but Cut-&-Paste from the Forum "CODE:" box did not work so I then tried something else - my mistake. It was not that long a line to type by hand.
If I wanted to automate setting the file dates to their last change time is it easy to run git bash from within BlackBox (or some other tool - Python?), and to recover the output text for machine parsing?