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Files for CVS

Asked by: rbohac

I'm finally getting around to setting up CVS. What files do I actually need to store in my repository?

I know I need the .pas, .dpr and the .dfm files

I should be safe deleting the dcu's cause they'll just get recompiled.

what about .rc .drc .res (related right?) .dof, .dsk, .ddp, .cfg

any others I missed?

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2004-01-29 at 20:57:53ID20867612
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Answers

 

by: rbohacPosted on 2004-01-30 at 07:40:27ID: 10235832

Stepping up the points.

 

by: JaccoPosted on 2004-01-30 at 11:38:44ID: 10237793

I always include (apart from dpr/pas/dfm)

rc
Only the application res (binary) for the icon (Delphi recreates it otherwise).
inc

You need the cfg and/or dof for the searchpath, but if you work with many developers with many different packages installed it can be a problem because also the include/excluded packages are mentioned in those files. I decided not to include them in the CVS repository. The only thing I needed from those files was the source search path. If it is missing the error is easily found.

Also I converted all dfm files to text format. I did this because you can easily show/evalute the differences between versions.

We use WinCVS 1.3, CVSNT and Araxis in our team and a quit happy about how it all works. WinCVS 1.3 support a hierarchy of projects through the modules file which is very cool if you have projects that share code. Also very important is the .ignore file which you can check in on each directory specifying which files don't matter.

Another thing to pay attention to is that if you delete a file in WinCVS the dcu remains on the local disk. You sources will compile while they are still referencing the pas file (compiling will use the dcu) but other developers that did not have the file (or deleted it) will not be able to compile the project. We installed a macro to delete dcu with no matching pas file.

Also for some component libraries we had to include some dcu (binary) because the sources were not available.

Hope you can do something with this info.

Regards Jacco

 

by: darrelloPosted on 2004-03-10 at 17:17:48ID: 10566959

Question - how did you convert the DFMs to text?  We have some that are for some reason in binary form - most are text - this is really messing up CVS for us.

 

by: JaccoPosted on 2004-03-12 at 22:55:56ID: 10586706

Right click the form and select "Text DFM" in the context menu. Then save the form.

For third party components this is a teadious task but you only have to do it once. Open every dfm (the open dialog allows multiselect) and do the above steps.

Good luck,

Jacco

 

by: darrelloPosted on 2004-03-13 at 04:55:35ID: 10587328

yeah - figured that out - we have one machine that for some reason always ends up that way.

 

by: JaccoPosted on 2004-03-13 at 05:19:13ID: 10587378

Probably when creating new forms.

Check the following:

Tools / Environment Options / Designer / Module Creation Options / New forms as text

(Make sure all developers select the option otherwise they will check in binary dfms again)

Regards Jacco

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