Peter,
this was more or less the idea. Branching in Git, so you have a Main branch and a development branch which you can test, compile and run. What remains is the inconvenience you described with checking out if you qant to switch between the versions.
But maybe (I did not try or test) you can create two projects in Netbeans coming from the same Git repository. One from the main branch, one from the development branch. If this works, you would have more or less what you want.
Am 12.05.2023 um 19:45 schrieb Peter Toye:
Dear Helmut,Thank you - I already use GIT. But (as I mentioned in my reply to John Lavelle's comment) this doesn't seem to help separating the dev and release versions. I agree that it makes it easier to automate the workflow, but having to remember to checkout the release branch and recompile it at the end of each debugging session seems to me to be an unnecessary burden on the user. Is this what you were suggesting or have I missed something?Best regards, Peter mailto:netbe...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com ------------------------- Friday, May 12, 2023, 1:45:38 PM, you wrote: Peter, Am 12.05.2023 um 14:14 schrieb John Lavelle: snip ... What I can't work out is how to separate the development from the > release version of the project. I've got a working version which I > want to use, but I want to extend it without losing sight of the > original. I've been using Visual Studio for other projects, and they > have a separate configurations for the dev and release versions and > the executables go into different directories. Is there a way of doing > this in NetBeans? As far as I can see, once I've started a debug > session, the release version is overwritten. ..... Maybe you should think about using a VCS (Version Control System) like Git, Mercurial, Subversion which is useable by Netbeans. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Helmut Leininger Email: h.leinin...@gmx.at <mailto:h.leinin...@gmx.at>
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