On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 4:19 AM, kilon alios <[email protected]> wrote:
> > "The important take-away from this is that when working with git and > Smalltalk you must track the SHA that has been loaded into the image (the > latest version of Metacello tracks this information in the project > registry) and you must have in-image tool support for recognizing SHA skew. > It's not absolutely necessary to provide a tool for `skew save`, but it > _is_ tedious to "merge your way out of trouble" manually and in-image tools > make this situation much more tolerable ..." > > well I have to confess all this is way out of my league :D > Haha ... and that's the point ... with tool support you don't have to be "in that league":) > As I said before I have done some merges with git, but nothing so complex > to require knowing all this stuff. But then I work mostly on my own small > projects and not in large teams. > FWIW, I was getting myself into this trouble, by working in multiple images that were distributed over time ... I would come back to an older image and discover that I'd updated one of my shared projects and I had modifications to that project that I wanted to save ... Tools are supposed to help people who do not have a PHD in git and not get in the way of those who do:) Dale
