On 01/27/2015 10:58 AM, kilon alios wrote:
I was wondering how possible it is to check a github repo for new
commits and compare it with the existing code to based on the Baseline
loading of a Github repo to Pharo. Is it possible ?
Yes, I think there are a couple of different ways to skin that cat. The
logic in MCGitBasedNetworkRepository
class>>projectDirectoryFrom:version: could be picked apart to determine
if a new download is available, but it relies on downloading and
partially unpacking the zip file for the given target, which is pretty
heavy weight ...
For notifications I would be inclined to look at the github/bitbucket
web api and see what can be done. Someday I plan to look into this, but
haven't done the due diligence yet.
I want to make an updater for my project that will pop up a dialog to
alert the user for new updates in my Github repo.
Does a Baseline have access to git commits and their time/date
signature ?
The registry records the `repositoryVersionString` of the loaded
baseline which is the SHA of the commit for a filetree/git repo. For the
MCGitBasedNetworkRepository, the `repositoryVersionString` is based on
the unique identifier for the download, which is not always a commit SHA
... for tags, I think that the identifier is the SHA of the tag ...
Timestamp is not always useful since it is the relationship of commits
on a branch that is important for comparison purposes ...
At then end of the day, though, I think that these issues can be
addressed a nice little updater tool can be built ... I will be
interested to see what you've done, if you get there first:)
By the way Dale forgot to reply previously that I am definetly
checking out git tags as you suggested.
Cool,
Dale
