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

Casey Ransberger casey.obrien.r at gmail.com
Tue Jan 11 23:06:09 UTC 2011


This one bit me and I had to get rabies shots. Don't end up like me!

Andreas, thanks. I wasn't totally clear on how to fix it when my commit wound up with unintended bits. Now I can't make any more excuses:)

On Jan 11, 2011, at 1:20 PM, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:

> On 1/11/2011 8:42 PM, commits at source.squeak.org wrote:
>> A new version of Morphic was added to project The Inbox:
>> http://source.squeak.org/inbox/Morphic-MAD.512.mcz
>> 
>> ==================== Summary ====================
>> 
>> Name: Morphic-MAD.512
>> Author: MAD
>> Time: 11 January 2011, 9:42:18.437 pm
>> UUID: f79030b3-a48a-4fba-a6b6-ad4db0e21c99
>> Ancestors: Morphic-ul.511
>> 
>> Updated TheWorldMainDockingBar>>extendingTheSystem to refer to a known good version of OmniBrowser.
>> 
>> I'm not sure why the following changes were made - they're none of my doing:
>> D    Morphic postscriptOfRemoval
>> D    Morphic preamble
>> D    Morphic postscript
> 
> 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.
> 
> To revert changes do the following:
> 1) Select the package AND the repository the previous version came from
> 2) Click the "Changes" button in Monticello
> 3) Select any changes you didn't make and choose "revert" from the context menu
> 4) Repeat from step 2 to ensure you didn't miss anything.
> 
> I do steps 1) and 2) before *every* commit in order to both, avoiding commits I didn't intend to make and also double-checking for any accidentals "self halts" or similar in the commit.
> 
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
> 



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