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Mat Noguchi GDC 2005 Talk Slide 22

We can also walk the tag definition to translate between various tag representations; in this case, we can take the raw binary data for the energy sword tag and translate it to and from text with ease. We don't do this operation often, but it's useful to analyze how content changed in source control. We had an intern go in and add this capability to our source control process late in the project; it helped us immensely in tracking changes, especially as we started locking down the content and instituted a peer-review checkin policy.



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