[Eric] problem of managing project files with VCS

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Dienstag, 26. April 2011, Flavio Coelho wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Eric4 project files, include in the header a comment line with the date and
> time the project was last saved:
> 
> <!-- Saved: 2011-04-26, 08:47:29 -->
> 
> This causes problems with sharing projects with vcs such as git or
> mercurial (and possibly any other). Since this line always changes when
> the project gets saved on each developer machine, when one pulls changes
> from a central repository there are often a merge conflict on that
> particular line.
> 
> I suggest removing this information from project files and relying on file
> attributes to find out when the project was last saved.

This is (like most other stuff in eric4/5) configurable. Please see the config 
dialog Project->Project page, XML group.

Detlev

> 
> thanks
> 
> 
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