On 11/7/15 10:00 AM, Thierry Goubier wrote:
Oh yes,
I can announce that from now on, the development version of
GitFileTree for Pharo 5 handles FileTree repositories without most of
the metadata (precisely version and methodProperties).
This makes the format a lot more DVCS friendly (Git, Fossil, Hg, SVN,
all...) by cutting the noise on diffs and conflicts on merge and
cherry picking.
Note: it only apply to brand new repositories; nothing is changed for
pre-existing ones.
Note2: reading those Metadata-less repositories with FileTree does
give you packages without metadata: no version history, no author, no
author nor timestamp on methods.
Note3: it is possible to hack a repo from metadata to non-metadata
mode, but I won't explain it.
Enjoy and tell me how it works for you. I'm especially interested by
heavy branchers/mergers reports :)
Thierry
Thierry,
You want to double check that Metacello works correctly with these
metadata-less packages ... if you are continuing to increment the
"package version" there shouldn't be a problem, but when I did a similar
experiment a year or so ago, I found that I had to teach Metacello to
ignore the "package version" and load the package anyway ... the normal
procedure for Monticello packages and Metacello is not load a package if
the "package version" is less than or equal to the package already
loaded .... I did make an extension to Metacello to make this work ....
I can hunt it up if needed and make it part of the standard release (I
may have kept it as part of tODE) ...
Dale
