Save Files as Unminified JSON

[professorbeej]

Hey, folks. My partner and I are collaborating remotely on our game, and we are using GitHub to do it. It works great for the most part, except when I am trying to merge branches or pull requests.

What happens is that if either of us has edited MapInfos.json or Actors.json or System.json or whatever (which of course we have), git can't parse the conflicts that come up. Even if they are not overlapping.

Because RMMV saves all the files during development as minified JSON, git just sees a single line that has conflicts. What I've been able to do so far is use a JSON beautifier/unminifier (link here in case anyone else needs it) and then manually go through the files in VS Code and decide whether I want to keep the current change or the incoming change.

It's not that bad, but it's a real pain. It would be so much easier if git could parse the actual lines of code like it's designed to do.

So all that to say: has anyone figured out a way to get RMMV to save the data files as unminified JSON by default?

 

[Jonforum]

you c'ant
use .gitignor on those file.

 

[professorbeej]

That would basically be .gitignoring everything in the repo except for the image assets, wouldn't it? Then my partner wouldn't be able to get any of the changes I made, and I wouldn't get his, if I understand right, right?

 

[Jonforum]

hum ho ok i understand more , forget me , this solution it not for your context !
You can maybe find a wayt to edit git to ignor error , but allow github to update files for your team.
With a .gitignor file , you will not allow to `fech origin` your ignored json files to github.

The only solution i can see, wait if people have more...
Iyt to create a .bat file, and when your ready to share , execute the .bat that will unminified the rmmv json.
You will need study how create a .bat.

Or ask the rmmv team sofware dev to allow this.

And for gitignor , you can tell what folder or file you want ignor.

 

[Aloe Guvner]

@professorbeej I had noticed this in the System.json file, did you see it in other files too?

I was about to link to this thread
https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/rmmv-git-gitattributes-and-versionid-change.107206/
but you already saw it.
@Jonforum ^^ you might be interested in that link

See this prior thread for some additional context on that request if you're curious.
https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/rmmv-git-gitattributes-and-versionid-change.107206/