From 7f72456948f3bf2472532b4574c11de56143dcc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 15:24:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] add section about enabling auto-change detection --- HDL_workflow.mdwn | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) 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 -- 2.30.2