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[Kristoffer Ödmark <kristofferodmark90@xxxxxxxxx>]

Good ideas! I would also like a better SCM behavior. Having the file 
change as little as possible would be great for those things.

I will this and see what else you encounter :)

On 2017-07-01 04:49, hauptmech wrote:
> We have a fairly complex board that needs to be done yesterday. We've 
> been experimenting with simultaneous editing of the pcb with moderate 
> success.
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> We are using git. Each person works in a different area of the board, 
> and we merge the results periodically.
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> Because of the time crunch, we are only focusing on what works in this 
> process, and staying away from edits that do not work. Moving footprints 
> and laying tracks works fine.
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> A couple things I've noticed that could improve things:
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> net indexes of nets are not stable. Maybe eeschema/netlist.cpp:369 Maybe 
> we could wait until we get close to running out of integers before we do 
> this?
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> module order gets changed in some edits (Not sure but probably "fix 
> module file details and update modules in pcb" type edits). Ordering 
> modules by reference would fix this.
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> We are getting enough benefit that we'll keep refining the technique.
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