[crossfire] Handling of "Created" and "Modified" info in map headers

Rick Tanner leaf at real-time.com
Mon Sep 8 11:19:26 CDT 2008


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My interpretation and intent of the map header information was to add a
"Created by" field to give the original author credit and a born-on date
   for historical purposes.

Per the feature request in Gridarta[1], a last modified field giving
credit to the person who made the changes along a time stamp so we know
when the change was made.

Now when a player types in 'mapinfo for a bug report they (without
server admin or DM help) can easily see (and report) enough useful
information to at least start troubleshooting.  We know if the map is in
SVN or not (or out of date with what is SVN) and when it was last
modified and by who.

If someone wants to look up the entire revision history of the map,
there are online tools to do that (SVN browse at Sourceforge, svn2cl,
svn log commnd, etc.)


[1] -
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1811088&group_id=166996&atid=841185


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