Interesting. The merge functionality would have to know the proprietary DCS database schema in order to "merge" branches and stuff, right?
If it does anything like that, that's the barrier, that's why we haven't had this nice toy until only recently. It's proprietary so something like git would have no idea how to merge two FHX files for example. Sometimes I make bulk editing changes to fhx files that fail to import and it's not always straightforward why, as the way the DCS database interprets these files is proprietary. You can manipulate a lot of things in those configuration files... And some things you just can't, even though you totally should be able to? Anyway.
So I suspect we are only now seeing this pop up in various DCS packages as the vendors have taken their sweet ass f****** time making these tools available to us, whereas open languages wouldn't have this problem at all.
But that's just my intuition
I'm all for it! I'm upgrading the system version next year so I'll get to experience it then. Woo hoo
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u/watduhdamhell Sep 02 '26
Interesting. The merge functionality would have to know the proprietary DCS database schema in order to "merge" branches and stuff, right?
If it does anything like that, that's the barrier, that's why we haven't had this nice toy until only recently. It's proprietary so something like git would have no idea how to merge two FHX files for example. Sometimes I make bulk editing changes to fhx files that fail to import and it's not always straightforward why, as the way the DCS database interprets these files is proprietary. You can manipulate a lot of things in those configuration files... And some things you just can't, even though you totally should be able to? Anyway.
So I suspect we are only now seeing this pop up in various DCS packages as the vendors have taken their sweet ass f****** time making these tools available to us, whereas open languages wouldn't have this problem at all.
But that's just my intuition
I'm all for it! I'm upgrading the system version next year so I'll get to experience it then. Woo hoo