From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 14:24:35 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: add section about enabling auto-change detection
X-Git-Tag: convert-csv-opcode-to-binary~2487
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7f72456948f3bf2472532b4574c11de56143dcc7;p=libreriscv.git

add section about enabling auto-change detection
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diff --git a/HDL_workflow.mdwn b/HDL_workflow.mdwn
index cd7795c6a..9e86506dd 100644
--- a/HDL_workflow.mdwn
+++ b/HDL_workflow.mdwn
@@ -523,6 +523,12 @@ cover corner cases and take far less time to write
   avoid this kind of thing however pair-programming is difficult to organise
   for remote collaborative libre projects (suggestions welcomed here)
 
+### Enable editor auto-detection of file changes by external programs
+
+This is important.  "git pull" will merge in changes.  If you then
+arbitrarily save a file without re-loading it, you risk destroying
+other people's work.
+
 ### Absolutely no auto-generated output
 
 * **do not commit autogenerated output**. write a shell script and commit