Oh yes that's the best source; the original.  Maybe it can be rolled
into as part of a new .changes / .sources for the 4.6 / 5.0 release.
I liked the last thing Eliot said about it (a while back) that we
could keep all history, just get rid of the "leaves".  Does anyone
remember the status of #condenseSources and #condenseChanges?  Do they
just work or is there some issue which was the reason we haven't done
it in so long?

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> Actually we just need to take a sources/changes file from before 11/20/2005 and compare all methods to the current ones ...
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>> On 06.12.2014, at 22:20, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Yes, I guess I didn't realize we had overwritten initials because I
>> remember doing the FixUnderscores improvement myself to preserve the
>> initials.  Wait..
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>> (CompiledMethod allInstances collect: [ : e | e timeStamp ] as: Bag)
>> sortedCounts first: 10
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>> Dang.  So, yeah, it looks like quite a few method's original
>> authorship information got trampled.  Unfortunately, the 'mc history'
>> function can only show what was actually _loaded_ into that DB.  IOW,
>> we have to have the .mcz's for the versions that were BEFORE 2/4/2006
>> 20:41.  The oldest one we have in trunk is
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>> Name: Sound-md.6
>> Author: md
>> Time: 21 April 2006, 5:05:36 pm
>> UUID: 498cd464-d148-11da-a5e8-000d933a223c
>> Ancestors: Sound-md.5
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>> which carries the same version of that method.
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>> But at least we can identify the worst-offending methods (the list
>> above), so that maybe they could be extracted from an old image or
>> maybe Bob's history thing??
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>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:20 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 12:23:09PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>> On 05.12.2014, at 04:11, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>>>>> (Stephane added explicitly since the code has his initials)
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>>>> We can't rely on the initials unfortunately - this is from when we converted underscore assignments to colon-equals, which originally did not preserve initials.
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>>>> It would actually be a very useful project for someone to fix this: write a snippet that goes through every method, compares it to its previous version (using Chris's MC history thingy for example), and if the only change is that ':=' replaced '_' then restore the previous time stamp.
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>>> This is a really good idea, so I am replying with a new subject line in
>>> hopes of encouraging follow up.
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>>> Dave
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