> On Mar 28, 2018, at 7:34 PM, Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All- > > I'm working on a bug in renaming sub-sheets. In testing the fix, I've run up > against a set of conflicting paradigms for how subsheets are handled. I'd > like some feedback on how we expect to handle the subsheets. > > Either: > 1) we treat them as actual objects such that renaming the sheet's filename > renames the file on the computer but keeps the contents unchanged or > 2) we treat them as links to the objects and renaming the filename of the > subsheet doesn't change the subsheet's file but instead just changes which > file is referenced. > > Right now, we do both depending on whether there is an existing file and more > than one reference to the subsheet or not. This is confusing as it is > difficult to determine when an operation will result in actually overwriting > an existing file and thereby losing data. > > I'm inclined to make all actions (2). This would allow a subsheet file to > become unlinked from the project if you change the filename referencing it > but would not allow overwriting subsheets on disk. > > Does anyone feel strongly that (1) is the correct action?
If the project is in source-code control, then Kicad renaming a file that’s under that control breaks things.
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