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[Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi JP-

That's correct, A.sch does not get modified.  Only the contents shown are
changed.

Here is a video showing the behavior:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LnG2khusuEal3E2I8-NPEZ-A9dA_ag8O/view?usp=sharing

If you don't see the same behavior, perhaps this is linux-only?

-S

2018-03-29 9:23 GMT-07:00 jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> Le 29/03/2018 à 18:04, Seth Hillbrand a écrit :
> > Thanks for the feedback.  It helps me get my head around how the
> subsheets are meant to work.
> >
> > Here is one of the bugs:
> >
> > 1) Take the attached project and unzip into KiCad.
> > 2) Open the schematic and you will find a schematic with 5 subsheets
> referencing 3 subsheet files.
> >   - Each subsheet file has a label with its associated file name.  So
> A.sch contains "A".
> > 3) Rename the file for Sheet B to "A.sch"
> >   - This works as expected for linking.  There is a warning, you replace
> the contents of B with the
> > contents A.sch.
> > 4) Rename the file for Sheet B again, this time to "D.sch"
> >   - You get a warning about the sheet using shared data in a complex
> hierarchy.  Click "OK"
> >
> > At this point, Eeschema creates "D.sch" using the data from "A.sch".  If
> I understand Wayne
> > correctly, the mixing of these metaphors is fine.  Renaming a sheet
> filename to an existing filename
> > replaces the sheet's current contents with the existing file contents
> but renaming a sheet filename
> > to a non-existing filename will create a new copy of the current
> contents.
> >
> > 5) Now, open the subsheet "B", notice that it has the label "A".  Edit
> the contents to be "D" and save.
> >
> > The bug here is that if you now open the original subsheet A, its
> contents have also been changed to
> > "D".  But only until you close and re-open the project.  At that point,
> it is back to "A".  I'll
> > deal with this bug but leave the copying/linking behavior as is unless
> people feel otherwise.  It
> > confused me but I think I can clarify it in the dialog text.
> >
> > -S
>
> Hi Seth,
>
> I tried that, and I did not noticed your issue.
> All sheets are OK, and the subsheet A.sch was not modified.
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>
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