Frozen Image

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Mon Apr 17 06:37:04 UTC 2006


On 14 avr. 06, at 14:55, Zulq Alam wrote:

> > I'm not sure from your message if this has happened with a  
> running image, or if it happens every time you start up your image.
>
> It happens every time I start the image. Your advice is good in the  
> later case as well though.
>
> I started a new image, used a file list to find the  
> original .changes file and used this information to recover the  
> important changes using a changelist browser. This is the same  
> browser that comes up when looking at recently logged changes just  
> looking at an external .changes file.
>
> > Note that there are "do its" mixed in with the method changes.
>
> Yes, this was a pain as I couldn't just select the code  
> modifications and finding the pertinent "do its" was too time  
> consuming. Instead I just skipped them all and redid as much of the  
> refactoring that was undone. I'm glad I didn't have more work to  
> recover.

Indeed this is a misconception of the changeset and their underlying  
meta-model.
Class definition and a lot more should not be represented as doit. In  
VW they fixed that.

Now I suggest to use Monticello since you do not get these kinds of  
problems.


>
> > Of course I've also had times when I had to force-quit.
>
> I have always been able to interrupt and save before.
>
> Thanks,
> Zulq.
>




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