For some reason, my first answer go directly to Chris and not to the list.

I repost to include the list.

2014-06-29 13:46 GMT+02:00 Fernando D. Bozzo <fdbozzo@gmail.com>:

> Hi Chris:

>

> It's better if you keep the boundle of the binaries / text versions

> together, to minimize the regeneration from one to other to a minimum.

>

> The text versions are not for information purposes only, they are the only

> way to merge changes with a SCM tool!

>

> You can work in two ways:

>

> Old way (as in SourceSafe): Each developer checkout a file, and no one can

> modify the same file. When he finish the editing (minutes, hours, days, who

> knows) he/she checkin their changes on main branch and now everybody can

> use it.

>

> New way (Git, Mercurial, Plastic, ...): Each developer create his own

> working branch, make their changes even on same components (forms,

> classlibs) and checkin in the release branch. If second developer have

> modified the same file, then must resolve the merge operation with may be

> manual and may be automatic changes, then checkin. This merge is done using

> the text versions, obviously, and the binaries are regenerated from them.

>

> About FoxBin2Prg, it's used in two ways:

>

> - For developers that never used a SCM tool, they are using it with the

> included vbs scripts from Windows File Explorer, or directly from VFP

> command line, for Diffing or for backup purposes

>

> - For developers that use SCM tools, it's used on some production systems

> with the included vbs scripts and with the SCM internal tools for Diff and

> Merge, and there is a special boundle of VFP tools (scripts) to interface

> with PlasticSCM

>

> At the main VFPx help page you can see how it works and a demo video:

> https://vfpx.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=FoxBin2Prg

>

> At the bottom of this help, there is a link to Internals and Config that

> could be helpful too:

>

> https://vfpx.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=FoxBin2Prg%20Internals%20and%20Configuration

>

>

> Best regards!

>

>

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