Well, the diff button does produce a .mcd (with older version number in brackets). I agree that, certainly from my experience, these diff files seemed rather troublesome.
Regards, Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lukas Renggli" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Monticello diff between chosen revisionsisbroken > Needs looking at since it is confusing. IIRC the Diff button creates a > .mcd > file of the changes between some versions... No this has nothing to do with .mcd. The .mcd thing was an experiment (that should probably better be removed again) that did not always safe a complete package but only a delta to the ancestor. I think it has never been used in production and is quite buggy. Lukas > Regards, Gary > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mariano Martinez Peck > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 5:34 PM > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Monticello diff between chosen > revisionsisbroken > > > 2010/1/25 Gary Chambers <[email protected]> >> >> The "Diff" button on the Monticello repository browser does what its >> balloon help says... >> >> 'Create an equivalent version based on an earlier release'. This is a >> diff version. I never use them as they can be confusing :-) >> > > Ok...I never used before...but something is clear: the second ask about a > version, has no sense, and even is wrong if it compares to the last > version. > See step 6 of Stefan. Then, we have to options: > - Or we remove that second prompt, as it always will use the last version > - Or we change the diff implementation so that it uses the selected > version > instead of the last. > What do you think ? > Does someone really know what this "diff" should do ? > Cheers > Mariano > >> >> If you want to compare two existing versions you should: >> >> 1. Open Monticello Browser >> 2. Select a repo >> 3. click open >> 4. Select a revision, not the latest one >> 5. Click HISTORY >> 6. chose an ancestor from the list >> >> Regards, Gary >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Mariano Martinez Peck >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: Lukas Renggli >> Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 12:59 PM >> Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Monticello diff between chosen revisions >> isbroken >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Stefan Marr <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi: >>> >>> In the current dev image (10508), Monticello is broken with respect to >>> showing the differences of between chosen revisions. >>> >>> However, that seems to be broken already in 10496. (and maybe earlier) >>> >>> To reproduce: >>> >>> 1. Open Monticello Browser >>> 2. Select a repo >>> 3. click open >>> 4. Select a revision, not the latest one >>> 5. Click diff >>> 6. chose an ancestor from the list >>> Now you got a window 'Version: ...5' >>> Saying (Diff against ...2) >>> Here I would expect the changes button to open a window showing the >>> changes between the chosen revisions, but it always diffs against the >>> latest >>> version. >>> >> >> Yes, I could reproduce the problem. Can you open a ticket ? >> >> Maybe Lukas Monticello guru can help us ? hahaha >> >> Cheers >> >> Mariano >> >>> >>> Best >>> Stefan >>> >>> -- >>> Stefan Marr >>> Software Languages Lab >>> Vrije Universiteit Brussel >>> Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium >>> http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr >>> Phone: +32 2 629 3956 >>> Fax: +32 2 629 3525 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- Lukas Renggli http://www.lukas-renggli.ch _______________________________________________ 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
