Actually we just need to take a sources/changes file from before 11/20/2005 and compare all methods to the current ones ...

- Bert -

> On 06.12.2014, at 22:20, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, I guess I didn't realize we had overwritten initials because I
> remember doing the FixUnderscores improvement myself to preserve the
> initials.  Wait..
> 
> (CompiledMethod allInstances collect: [ : e | e timeStamp ] as: Bag)
> sortedCounts first: 10
> 
> 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
> 
> Name: Sound-md.6
> Author: md
> Time: 21 April 2006, 5:05:36 pm
> UUID: 498cd464-d148-11da-a5e8-000d933a223c
> Ancestors: Sound-md.5
> 
> which carries the same version of that method.
> 
> 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??
> 
> 
> 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:
>>>> 
>>>> (Stephane added explicitly since the code has his initials)
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> - Bert -
>> 
>> 
>> This is a really good idea, so I am replying with a new subject line in
>> hopes of encouraging follow up.
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> 
> 



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