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Resolved PowerBuilder 2017 R3 - Git (should .pbls be committed)

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  1. Steven Turner
    Steven Turner
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  3. Friday, 25 October 2019 14:21 PM UTC

Good morning,

Upon making a change to an object within a particular .pbl (acme1.pbl for example), I right-click on that .pbl (using TortoiseGit) to commit the change to that specific object. This commit is reflected in the ws_objects folder.

If I do a "git status" on my local repository, it will tell me that acme1.pbl is changed as well. Do we also need to commit the affected .pbl as well? If not, can I add "*.pbl" to my .gitignore file so that I won't be constantly asked to do something with the .pbl. This becomes an issue when trying to switch branches (if there are uncommitted changes).

Thanks in advance....
Steve

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Matthew Balent
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  1. Friday, 25 October 2019 15:53 PM UTC
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Ideally you should set up your source folder separate from your 'application' folders (where the .PBLs reside), however in your situation you should get git to ignore the binary.  IMHO the only reason to put the .pbl files in source is when you have a 'gold release' (production code) and you want to have all the objects stored somewhere for posterity / future troubleshooting.

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Roland Smith
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  1. Friday, 25 October 2019 20:27 PM UTC
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I agree with Matt. When you have a release, put a copy of the PBL, PBD, and EXE files into source control. That way if you need to go back to an older version for some reason, all the files are there. Do that outside of the PowerBuilder GIT interface.

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Miguel Leeuwe
  1. Miguel Leeuwe
  2. Saturday, 26 October 2019 14:45 PM UTC
Just to be clear: It can be inside the Git interface, as long as it's just a copy of the pbl's in a separate folder of your source code.
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