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

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