[squeak-dev] Strange Monticello behavior (at least for me)

Alexander Lazarević laza at blobworks.com
Thu May 12 12:17:28 UTC 2011


Levente,

that would be a perfect explanation, but unfortunately the quick fix I had
in mind wasn't as innocent as I thought it would be, so shooting myself in
the foot.

Anyway thanks,
 Alex

2011/5/12 Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu>

> On Thu, 12 May 2011, Alexander Lazarević wrote:
>
>  I was just about to commit an innocent fix for MethodReference to the
>> trunk,
>> when Monticello presented me a list of >2000 changes it would actually
>> commit. So I fetched the latest image from Squeak.org, updated the image,
>> checked that everything was up to date and touched the classSymbol method
>> again. And again I got that huge list of changes when I checked against
>> trunk? As always I'm prepared to get a "you're holding it wrong" answer to
>> this, but I wonder what's the deal.
>>
>
> If the repository you're trying to save the package to (e.g. package-cache,
> Inbox) doen't containt the ancestor of the given package, then it will show
> more methods as changed. The worst case is when the repository doesn't
> contain the package at all, so you'll see that all methods have changed. In
> this case check the changes to the Trunk repository, which (besides showing
> you the correct changes) will fetch the ancestors of the package and save it
> to the package-cache. Then save your package to the package-cache (it will
> show the correct changes in the save dialog) and copy the saved version from
> the package-cache to the repository you wanted to save it originally.
>
>
> Levente
>
>
>> Alex
>>
>
>
>
>
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