I've only used GIT a small amount to test my PBSearch tool.

From what I've gathered from other posts, it can only connect to the main branch. If that is true, they need to change it.

Hi Roland;

Correct ... that is the current limitation within the PB IDE.

Regards ... Chris

Floyd, you are exactly right. If you need to go back in time you can roll back to a specific commit, do a refresh to pull the source back into the PBLs and then do a new build.



The PB IDE doesn't allow you to change banchs but that doesn't mean you can switch branches from the command line ot something like TortiousGit. Just be sure to do a refresh in the IDE after changing branches or else the PBLs will not be in sync.



This constant need to do refreshes is a pain. The bare minimum for Git is implemented in the IDE so you are forced to do a lot of stuff outside the IDE which then requires you to remember to do a refresh. There really needs to be a way to programatically trigger a refresh. Like maybe a windows message or something like that which would trigger a refresh at the root level of your workspace.



Here is what we have proposed for a build environment. We will have one machine that is dedicated to producing builds. When we need to do a build this machine will perform these steps:



First I will fetch the latest source and force it to overwrite any changes that are on the build server:

git fetch --all

git reset --hard origin/master



I will then grab the commit hash with this command (When I am done building I will move the EXE and PBDs into a subfolder named with this hash):

git rev-parse HEAD



I delete any left over PBLs and PBDs left from the last build:

del *.pbl

del *.pbd



To generate new PBLs using the latest source code I use an Orca script named build.orc that looks similar to this:

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start session

set debug true

scc set connect property localprojpath ".\"

scc set connect property logfile "..\build.log"

scc set connect property logappend false

scc set connect property deletetempfiles "true"

scc connect offline

scc set target ".\target.pbt" "refresh_all importonly"

scc refresh target 3pass

build library ".\library.pbl" "" pbd

build executable ".\application.exe" ".\resources\application.ico" "" "y" newvstylecontrols

scc close

end session

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I then call the script like this:

orcascr190.exe build.orc



When the build is done I do:

copy *.pbd

copy *.exe