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

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Tue Jan 11 22:31:20 UTC 2011


On 1/11/2011 2:17 PM, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
> 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).

Ah, good find. Guess we'll have to find out what was causing this. And 
thanks for reporting Michael!

Cheers,
   - Andreas




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