Hi Nicolas and others, I am glad you found this description useful. I am authoring a chapter on Monticello for PharoByExample, and there is a section dedicated on this functionality. However, I haven't been convinced this is a feature really useful since I know no-one who used it.
If you used it, just even once, please let me know. Cheers, Alexandre On 24 Apr 2009, at 13:57, Nicolas Cellier wrote: > Thank you for this useful link. So the procedure described by Avi is > > "At various points there have been requests that when merging > versions, > you be able to select only some of the changes to merge. You can use > the Backport facility to do this as follows: > > - load the version you want to merge some of the changes from > - backport those changes to the common ancestor with the version you > want to merge into > - save this backported version > - load your version, and merge in the backport > > Eventually, it would of course be nice to have a more automated UI for > doing that..." > > This is a feature I asked very recently: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.sapphire.devel/7440/match=merge > > So I feel free to give my feeling: > 1) The whole procedure seems overkill to me versus implementing same > functionality in merge tool > 2) There are cases when I do not want to load the other version > because I know it would break my image > 3) in some cases the common ancestor is far away or out of reach > (imagine I want to compare two squeak forks) > > Nicolas > > 2009/4/24 Damien Cassou <[email protected]>: >> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Alexandre Bergel >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Dear All, >>> >>> Are there any of you who already used the backporting function of >>> Monticello? It has been there for several years already. Enough time >>> to prove its usefulness. >> >> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2004-September/082094.html >> >> >> -- >> Damien Cassou >> http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
