On 08 Nov 2012, at 21:09, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Nov 8, 2012, at 9:03 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> One of the cool things of Smalltalk's images/changes file is that you can do >> a World Menu > Tools > Recover lost changes… to get back most [1] of your >> code in case your image/OS/machine suddenly crashed or you forgot to save >> your image or commit your Monticello packages. >> >> But we all have encountered the situation where the image is broken, saved >> in such a state that it no longer starts up properly. In that case your code >> might seem lost forever. >> >> No, it is not ! >> >> Two days ago I had this problem myself and I remembered something Marcus >> said some time ago: you can access the changes file of one (in casu your >> broken image) from another (working) image to select/recover the changes you >> want. It worked perfectly. >> >> The easiest procedure it to copy the .changes file from the broken image and >> rename its extension to .cs and then open it from a World Menu > Tools > >> File Browser and open a Changes browser on it. > > We should add a recover from another image shortcut. Yes! Good idea. >> I found this very useful. This is a really important technique to be aware >> of. >> >> Sven >> >> [1] Sadly, not everything is logged in the changes file: creation of new >> classes, method deletions are not recorded. > > Yes we should change that. > Ezequiel started to work on a new description of changes. OK.
