settings under change control

[samuelstroschein]

Context

The settings.json file is not tracked with lix atm.

• settings should be trackable as conflicts should be raisable

Proposal

Track the settings.json file with lix.

[samuelstroschein]

EDIT: nevermind. I would snapshot the settings file and store meta data for what property changed.

Ha. This is an interesting one. I am inclined to track changes in the settings.json per property instead of snapshotting the settings.json file (confirming LIX-109):

• an app cares about "did this setting" change?
  • if the properties are stored, traversing the changes per property is easy
  • if the entire snapshot is saved, each snapshot needs to be traversed
• merging properties is simpler than merging the entire settings file.
  • imagine settings.modules changes in A and B, we can combine settings.module from A and B.

@niklas.buchfink (building fink) @jannes.blobel (posthog settings would be the same use case) can you research how you would want to show change control for settings to the user?