[squeak-dev] Preserving package history while refactoring a package (was: The Trunk: Chronology-Core-dtl.2.mcz)

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Mon Feb 29 15:58:47 UTC 2016


Seems like Adopt should work...

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 8:32 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> If I want to move a sub-package out of a larger package (for example move
> Kernel-Chronology out of package Kernel and into its own package called
> Chronology-Core), and if I want to preserve the version history for that
> sub-package, is there a way to do this?
>
> I do not see any tool support for it. I tried manually updating the ancestry
> for the new package (Chronology-Core) and adding the ancestry from a suitable
> Kernel ancestor. This seems to produce a resonable version history in my
> local image, and all looked good when I saved the package to local package-cache.
>
> After copying the locally saved MCZ's with added version history up to
> source.squeak.org, the result was a broken update stream. So ....
>
> My manual hack is clearly not the right way to attack this problem. Is
> there another approach that might work?
>
> I really do not want to lose version history on the entire Chronology
> package, so I am hoping that there is some simple thing that I may have
> overlooked.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 09:17:42PM -0500, David T. Lewis wrote:
>> This was my attempt to attach the prior version history for Chronology to the
>> new Chronology-Core and Chronology-Tests packages. It appears to break the update
>> stream, so I will delete Chronology-Core-dtl.2 and Chronology-Tests-dtl.2 updates
>> from the source.squeak.org repository.
>>
>> Hopefully no one has tried to update their trunk images during this unfortunate
>> experiment.
>>
>> Sorry,
>> Dave
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 02:05:19AM +0000, commits at source.squeak.org wrote:
>> > David T. Lewis uploaded a new version of Chronology-Core to project The Trunk:
>> > http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Chronology-Core-dtl.2.mcz
>> >
>> > ==================== Summary ====================
>> >
>> > Name: Chronology-Core-dtl.2
>> > Author: dtl
>> > Time: 28 February 2016, 8:24:12.86775 pm
>> > UUID: 0dc832c9-bf4c-4559-a705-c19f44392089
>> > Ancestors: Chronology-Core-dtl.1, Kernel-tfel.1001
>> >
>> > Re-save Chronology-Core-dtl.1 with Kernel-tfel.1001 added to ancestry to preserve version history from Kernel package.
>> >
>> > =============== Diff against Chronology-Core-dtl.1 ===============
>> >
>


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