[squeak-dev] Reverting changes (Re: The Inbox: Morphic-MAD.512.mcz)

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Tue Jan 11 22:17:27 UTC 2011


On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Michael Davies wrote:

> On 11 January 2011 22:20, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> As general advice: Any changes you see that you didn't make, you need to
>> revert. Committing changes you did not actually intend to make is a recipe
>> for long-term disaster so don't.
>>
> Thanks for the advice Andreas -- generally I am careful to avoid this state
> of affairs, but the presence of these particular changes threw me. I had
> downloaded a clean Squeak4.2-10856-beta.image, and had run an update which
> brought me up to 10881.  At this point, before I'd actually made any changes
> directly, the Morphic package already had these three changes in it. I
> wasn't sure if I was seeing the after-effects of some clever post-postscript
> script clean-up, and that reverting these changes would thus cause a
> regression in the trunk...
>
> I've just had a look at an untouched 10856 image, and this also seems to
> have these unsaved changes already there, which again is not what I would
> have expected to see. Is there something obvious I'm missing here?

That image is not a clean Trunk image, but a modified one 
([ReleaseBuilderTrunk prepareNewBuild] was evaluated before it was saved).


Levente

>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>



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