Saving source as text

General
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I have been setting up some of my sources to use Git and version control. I normally keep my source code in binary format.

I ran into a problem with one of my application that resulted in being unable to load the saved source. It would not load one of the .xojo_code file. This was a rather large project, this file/module alone had over 6k line in it.

After many file splits and re-saving, compiling and reloading I found about 10 property statements that had comments WITHOUT the ’ or // .

I had reported this as a bug before I found the cause. After finding the cause I added a comment to the Feedback about the cause.

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Sorry to hear that.

One more reason not to use the brittle textual format for version control but to use binary files and then Arbed to compare and merge them, because Arbed makes sure the data structures do not break in a way that make them unreadable by the IDE. I do that with all my RB projects and never had such problems because of this :wink:

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I don’t follow what you mean when you say “property statements”
You mean properties where you’ve added comments to the “code editor” ?

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[quote=89205:@Thomas Tempelmann]
One more reason not to use the brittle textual format for version control but to use binary files and then Arbed to compare and merge them, because Arbed makes sure the data structures do not break in a way that make them unreadable by the IDE. I do that with all my RB projects and never had such problems because of this ;)[/quote]
Me either but I just use the IDE + SVN