On 18 sept. 05, at 11:49, Avi Bryant wrote:

>
> On Sep 18, 2005, at 2:40 AM, stéphane ducasse wrote:
>
>>
>> I wanted to know the changes (the delta) that  Collections-md.20  
>> in the 3.9alpha introduced compared to Collections-md.19.
>> So I selected Collections-md.20.mc from the repository, press diff
>> I got a version: Collection-md.20
>> (diff against Collection-md19)
>>
>> - Browse shows me everything so did not help.
>> - Changes shows me only the difference but I'm surprised since I  
>> do not see Dictionary>>isDictionary and Dictionary>>at:put:
>> which I can see when I browse the cs in the dual change sorter in  
>> Collections-md.20 cs
>>
>> So what am I doing wrong?
>>
>
> That's not the intent of the Diff button: it's for creating a  
> "diffy" version of a given package version (semantically equivalent  
> but more compactly represented), not for examining changes.  Again,  
> bubble text needed :)

Ok

> So, what you should do instead is press History.  This will pop up  
> a window with a list of earlier versions down the side.  You want  
> to see the delta against Collections-md.19, so select that from the  
> list, right-click and choose "view changes -> Collections-md.20".

Ok I thought history was just the ancestor chain.

> Except, please do note that as Daniel pointed out a couple of  
> times, the changes weren't made in Collections-md.20, they were  
> made in Collections-md.18.  So you actually want to be viewing the  
> delta between Collections-md.17 and Collections-md.18.

Ok I will.
>
> The Collections-md.20.cs actually represents the diff between .20  
> and whatever was the previous version loaded when .20 came into the  
> image - that is, the image at one point jumped from (for example) . 
> 10 to .20 and so the .20 changeset contains all of .11, .12, .13,  
> etc's changes.

Ohhhh vicious.

By the way do you have any idea how we should proceed to keep track  
or simultaneous changes in different packages (slice).
Because often we dispatch changes in several packages and I would  
like to keep this information (a slice a group of packages
has been changed together to introduce feature x).

Stef