At Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:09:52 +0200,
Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 21.08.2008 um 17:45 schrieb Yoshiki Ohshima:
> 
> >  I meant that "a changeset" that has the preamble where I "might be
> > able to find that information in the MC repository".  how do I find in
> > the MC repository which version contains the changeset with a method
> > with, say, 'ASF'?
> 
> 
> MC is snapshot-based, every MCZ contains all the code. So you would  
> have to bisect all MCZs to find the one introducing a change.
> 
> An MCZ is a zip file that also contains the plain Smalltalk source  
> code, so that could be used.
> 
> A more efficient way is to use MCDs which store something like a  
> changeset (actually, the old and new snapshots of the changed parts)  
> that updates from one MCZ to another.
> 
> An up-to-date SqueakSource server can auto-generate those MCDs even  
> though they do not appear in the file index list. E.g., this repository
> 
> 	http://source.squeakfoundation.org/39a/
> 
> shows
> 
> 	http://source.squeakfoundation.org/39a/Collections-md.71.mcz
> 	http://source.squeakfoundation.org/39a/Collections-md.70.mcz
> 	http://source.squeakfoundation.org/39a/Collections-md.69.mcz
> 
> but you can access
> 
> 	http://source.squeakfoundation.org/39a/Collections-md.70(md.69).mcd
> 
> which is much smaller (though the first request might take long  
> because the mcd is built). It has the new methods in new/source.st so  
> that's where you would find the changes ...
> 
> The full history info including preambles is stored in both MCZs and  
> MCDs inside a file named "version" as literal Smalltalk array (very  
> similar to s-expr).

  Cool.  I'll fetch these mcd, expand and suck the changes in.  Thank
you!

-- Yoshiki