On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Nicolai Hess <[email protected]> wrote:

> Do we have a documentation about the format of
> - class definitions
> - methods
> - class comments
> for the changes file ?
>


Google "specification of smalltalk chunk format" and you will see:

Overviews: Chunk File Format
<https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB8QFjAAahUKEwi25caEwuXHAhXNo4gKHTchAls&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimuw.edu.pl%2F~sl%2Fteaching%2F00_01%2FDelfin_EC%2FOverviews%2FChunkFileFormat.htm&usg=AFQjCNHOEmXwKdKmSJyT8fbhIuZbySOMUg&sig2=vV8q_t-VuMCJVzfl5UB7Bw>
Smalltalk Interchange Format - Draft Smalltalk Standard v1.9
<https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCUQFjABahUKEwi25caEwuXHAhXNo4gKHTchAls&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.math.rsu.ru%2Fsmalltalk%2Fstandard%2Fchapter4.html.en&usg=AFQjCNErBLKk5ii5-z0Y78vglNmR6EfptQ&sig2=Gs4qAQeeVblVgXaKJLW1uQ>
The Smalltalk fileOut format - 1
<https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCsQFjACahUKEwi25caEwuXHAhXNo4gKHTchAls&url=http%3A%2F%2Flive.exept.de%2Fdoc%2Fonline%2Fenglish%2Fprogramming%2FfileoutFormat.html&usg=AFQjCNEhzg6OFoLkIwmVAvuSuNU_u9L87w&sig2=_UzQF2Ns_Rwj-5RcXcvFFA>

and more.


>
> I am asking because some entries are using two separator
> "! !"
> and some only one
> "!"
>

Indeed.  It's in the spec.  ! ! ends a run of methods in the same protocol.
 ! ends a method or a doit, etc.  Read the spec.



> And we have a problem with the "Recover lost changes" browser
> (https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/16498/unrecoverable-changes)
> and I am not sure if this is a bug on the code importer
> or if it is a bug on how we write changes to the changes file.
>
>
> nicolai
>
>


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best, Eliot

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