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[Philip Lee <rocketman768@xxxxxxxxx>]

The .ui files *are* a severe pain. I am committed to converting every
single .ui to standard Qt calls inside the C++ source. If all of those are
converted, then we can all just edit and merge in harmony :) I've committed
a few of these so far, and you guys are definitely welcome to take a stab.
It's actually not as bad as you might imagine.

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:39 PM, mik firestone <mikfire@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What if we were to mark all the .ui files as binary blobs? git won't try
> to diff them when they change, but should just overwrite the old version.
> The .ui files look like text, but they really are not meant to be
> read/modified by humans.
>
> I am not certain what will happen when we have a collision, but I am
> hoping git will say "Two different checksums, you figure it out". Which is
> far better than having to crawl one of those .ui files with vim.
>
> Mik
>
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