We are trying to find a good method of making sure our file management system keeps our project strategies updated across many computers. What file does the controller use to determine if the strategy being used to go into debug is the same that is in the controller and whether it needs to be downloaded or not. On our development computers we want to compare the local copy with a master copy.
We have tested comparing .idb, .crf, .crn, and .crn1 files between machines running the same strategy but none are reliable — .idb changes on debug, .crf and .crn produce different binaries on recompile, and .crn1 never changes between revisions. Is the CRC mentioned in the Command Reference (Calculate/Retrieve Strategy CRC) computed from a specific file, or is there another way to compare two copies of the same strategy?