I dont disagree but when it comes to me making a tutorial about something then foremost I want to know exactly what I am talking about. So its pointless for me to talk about merges using filetree and gitfiletree unless I understand these specific topic inside out.
I dont have a problem getting a phd, I am a bookworm by nature anyway and I love learning. I am not saying also that tools are not needed to make things easier, obviously if tools make life easier then I am all for using them. But I need to make sure first that the tools you guys make work well in practice to recommend them to my viewers. Thats how serious teaching works. So I think for now would be better if I get more experience with merges as Thierry said and study more the internals of git. So far all I knew that using git for binary files was a no go, doable but not recommended. Thus I found strange that filetree uses binary files. On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Dale Henrichs < [email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > >
