adding dive computers to existing (v2.1) XML files

[Dirk Hohndel]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>>
>> I haven't spent enough time playing with different combinations of files, but what Dennis says at the very end seems to make sense to me. Can we add a way to detect "this is not the same divecomputer" (different sample rate for example) and instead of overwriting the existing divecomputer data add a new one?
>
> Well, it's the GUI part that is painful.
>
> Once we have the "edit dive computer nickname" GUI, I guess we could
> just add a check-box to allow editing the entry that has no model
> information, and then we'd use the nickname for the model entry. But
> otherwise we'd have to create a whole new made-up GUI for this. And I
> sooo looove doing one-off gtk things..

Uh - I like this. So a user of Subsurface 2.1 could simply give a
Nickname to all their existing dives and suddenly a new download from a
different divecomputer will nicely be added...

/D