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Re: C format programs

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Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> writes:

> On 08/30/12 04:13 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Ian Collins<ian-news@hotmail.com>  writes:
>>
>>> On 08/30/12 02:43 PM, songbird wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     If it is code I'm working on a lot I turn the
>>>> macros into function calls as much as possible
>>>> and do the text substitutions.  But that makes
>>>> it hard to do comparisons to the originals to
>>>> see what of substance has changed...
>>>
>>> Use your source control system.
>>>
>>> Check in cosmetic changes on their own, never mix them with logic
>>> changes.  Then you should be able to isolate the former from the
>>> latter quite easily.
>>
>> If you can cleanly separate your cosmetic changes from your logic
>> changes when working on code, to the point you can make a bunch of
>> changes that *only* fit one of those categories at a time, my hat is off
>> to you as a disciplined programmer.
>
> Well that depends how often you commit.  In my case it's every few
> minutes.  I always have a never mix the two rule for my teams.

Ah, you commit far more frequently than I do.  I typically keep beating
on a single checkout until a bunch of changes is all in and working (so
several days), or until I want to move the work I'm doing from my
workstation to my laptop or vice versa.

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C format programs songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2012-08-29 21:07 -0400
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    Re: C format programs songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2012-08-29 21:50 -0400
      Re: C format programs ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2012-08-29 20:32 -0700
        Re: C format programs songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2012-08-30 02:20 -0400
          Re: C format programs ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2012-08-30 06:06 -0700
            Re: C format programs songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2012-08-30 22:44 -0400
    Re: C format programs Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-08-29 19:50 -0700
  Re: C format programs Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-08-29 21:35 -0400
    Re: C format programs songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2012-08-29 22:43 -0400
      Re: C format programs Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-08-30 14:48 +1200
        Re: C format programs Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-08-29 19:58 -0700
          Re: C format programs songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2012-08-30 01:07 -0400
            Re: C format programs Adrian Ratnapala <raka@scooter.fritz.box> - 2012-09-01 07:10 +0000
        Re: C format programs Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2012-08-29 22:13 -0600
          Re: C format programs Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-08-30 16:28 +1200
            Re: C format programs Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2012-08-30 08:55 -0600
              Re: C format programs Adrian Ratnapala <raka@scooter.fritz.box> - 2012-09-01 07:03 +0000
          Re: C format programs Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-09-06 15:52 +0300

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