Nicolas From what I understand Kommitter just filters the entities that will be passed as modified and as such does not change the ancestry of a package.
Stef On Dec 4, 2013, at 8:12 PM, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does Kommitter enables partial commits (cherry picking) for a package? > If so, my question is how does it deal with MC ancestry? > > Imagine I have a package- A.247 from my-trunk. > I merge some A.312 from my-work repository with work in progress. > Now I want to cherry pick the changes which are OK, and publish only those to > my-trunk. > I do so in my-trunk/A.313. > Will A.312 be in the ancestry of A.313? > Logically as MC is working, yes, because it is in the ancestry of in-image > working copy. > > What if I later download A.313 from my-trunk in a fresh image and try to > merge A.312 to finish the work in progress? > IMO, this is not possible, A312 being an ancestor, no change will happen. > > So, it sounds like when I committed my-trunk/A.313 with partial changes, I > should have commited my-work/A.314 immediately after with the rest of pending > changes... > If I forgot to do so and threw my image away, from a fresh image, it is still > possible to load A.312, merge A.313, and publish A.314 in my-work repo. > > But then it rather complicates the flow... If we commit/merge carelessly, we > might throw away some valuable work in progress. > The fear of such scenario prevented us to integrate a change from Bert in > Squeak/trunk enabling such partial commits (directly from MC UI in Squeak > case). > > > 2013/12/4 Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr> > +1 > > > Thanks once more for your effort. This is a really important tool for me. > > > > Uko > > > > >
