所以我们在项目中有这个巨大的mainmodule.cpp源文件(11000行很大吗?),每次我不得不触摸它时,我都会畏缩。
由于这个文件是如此的核心和大,它不断积累越来越多的代码,我想不出一个好方法来让它实际上开始缩小。
该文件在我们产品的几个(> 10)维护版本中被使用和积极更改,因此很难重构它。如果我“简单地”将其拆分为3个文件,那么从维护版本合并回更改将成为一场噩梦。而且,如果您拆分具有如此长而丰富历史的文件,跟踪和检查SCC历史中的旧更改突然变得非常困难。
这个文件基本上包含了我们程序的“主类”(主要的内部工作调度和协调),所以每次添加一个特性,它也会影响这个文件,每次它的增长。:-(
在这种情况下你会怎么做?关于如何在不打乱SCC工作流程的情况下将新特性移动到单独的源文件中,您有什么想法吗?
(注意:我们使用c++和Visual Studio;我们使用AccuRev作为SCC,但我认为SCC的类型在这里并不重要;我们使用Araxis Merge来做实际的文件比较和合并)
Find some code in the file which is relatively stable (not changing fast, and doesn't vary much between branches) and could stand as an independent unit. Move this into its own file, and for that matter into its own class, in all branches. Because it's stable, this won't cause (many) "awkward" merges that have to be applied to a different file from the one they were originally made on, when you merge the change from one branch to another. Repeat.
Find some code in the file which basically only applies to a small number of branches, and could stand alone. Doesn't matter whether it's changing fast or not, because of the small number of branches. Move this into its own classes and files. Repeat.
因此,我们去掉了到处都一样的代码,以及特定于某些分支的代码。
This leaves you with a nucleus of badly-managed code - it's needed everywhere, but it's different in every branch (and/or it changes constantly so that some branches are running behind others), and yet it's in a single file that you're unsuccessfully trying to merge between branches. Stop doing that. Branch the file permanently, perhaps by renaming it in each branch. It's not "main" any more, it's "main for configuration X". OK, so you lose the ability to apply the same change to multiple branches by merging, but this is in any case the core of code where merging doesn't work very well. If you're having to manually manage the merges anyway to deal with conflicts, then it's no loss to manually apply them independently on each branch.
我认为你说这种SCC无关紧要是错误的,因为例如git的合并能力可能比你正在使用的合并工具更好。因此,核心问题“合并困难”发生在不同scc的不同时期。但是,您不太可能更改scc,因此这个问题可能无关紧要。
这并不是一个大问题的答案,而是一个具体问题的理论解决方案:
Figure out where you want to split the big file into subfiles. Put comments in some special format at each of those points.
Write a fairly trivial script that will break the file apart into subfiles at those points. (Perhaps the special comments have embedded filenames that the script can use as instructions for how to split it.) It should preserve the comments as part of the splitting.
Run the script. Delete the original file.
When you need to merge from a branch, first recreate the big file by concatenating the pieces back together, do the merge, and then re-split it.
另外,如果您想要保存SCC文件历史,我认为最好的方法是告诉您的源代码控制系统各个片段文件都是原始文件的副本。然后,它将保存该文件中保存的部分的历史,当然,它也将记录大部分被“删除”。