wilzbach
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13 years ago Comment author: Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com>
If you have a source file: $ test.d
and you just happen to have a C header file with the same name: $ test.h
If your run htod on the file: $ htod test.h
Your original project file is now gone. This is really horrible and I've already lost a good bit of work a couple of times because I didn't have that stuff under revision control.
Yes, we should always use revision control to protect from these kinds of mistakes, but it's never a good thing when a tool erases your files without any notice.
Sometimes you start a new project, you realize HTOD isn't doing a good job of translating some header file and you decide to give HTOD a hand by modifying some type definitions in the newly created .d file. And then you accidentally call htod again and all the additions/modifications you made are gone.
I don't always have GIT at hand, most probably because it requires that stupid msys linux emulator.
YMMV, but I don't like tools that wreak havoc on my files without me knowing about it.
Note: the issue was created automatically migrated from https://issues.dlang.org
Original bug ID: BZ#6249 From: Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com> Reported version: D2