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Poll: There's a big piece of code in need of a rewrite, do you create a new file and work from there, or refactor old code in old file?

Thompson Lee · 2012-10-14T23:29:55

I am about to do a code rewrite, but I'm not sure how an expert programmer does it. I would like to follow any sort of conventions to rewriting codes, if there exists any, and hopefully know how to do such tasks with confidence. It's not lanuage-specific, I'm just asking generally. So, I put up a poll so as to narrow down some of the actions done to do a rewrite. Thanks for polling. Update: There's a follow-up. link.

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Started by tom_mai78101 October 03, 2012 03:01 PM

19 comments, last by _the_phantom_ 11 years, 6 months ago

_the_phantom_

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October 14, 2012 11:29 PM

If it's really big I would probably create a branch specifically for that refactor job.

At work I make a point of having two active branches I can swap between at will; when combined with Perforce's 'shelve' feature it makes working on large changes pretty simple.