What can you do else than storing text?
I think of storing objects that represent operations I applied to my program: an ivar was renamed, a piece of code was extracted as a method, a method was moved to another class, etc. And those *live objects* can have a behavior that allows them to be applied to another program. This way I can think of applying other users' modifications to the code I've already modified: e.g., I've just renamed the same ivar (among other changes I don't want to loose), but the name my coworker invented was better and I want to apply that *particular* change.

In short, I would like to avoid treating source code as a text (which is just one possible way of representation) and keep it as live objects. Does it sound absolutely incapable?
 


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Dennis Schetinin
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On Wednesday, 4 July 2012 ��. at 17:37, Camillo Bruni wrote:


On 2012-07-04, at 15:30, Dennis Schetinin wrote:

On Wednesday, 4 July 2012 ��. at 16:11, Damien Cassou wrote:
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Dennis Schetinin <chaetal@gmail.com (mailto:chaetal@gmail.com)> wrote:
Am I wrong considering migration to Git-or-AnythingElseTextOriented to be a
give up on hopes for a real object-oriented source control/management as it
could and should be in Smalltalk?


can you think of any feature we could have now we couldn't with Git?
I didn't say "now", I talked about "hopes". E.g. hopes for "Source" Control Tool being aware of refactorings and other *operations* I apply to my program, instead of treating it as a plain text with some changes of unknown nature. I'm not sure it's possible right now (I know it's not, better to say?). But with a Smalltalk-based source control we can have it on one splendid day in the future. And I think on the Git way we'll finish with just some advanced text-comparison algorithms. No?

that has nothing to do with versioning per se.

You can always hook in a different merger for git (that's already a built in feature)
which simply redirects over a Pharo image and applies some more ST logic there.

Going for something that is even more st specific is a waste of time IMO.
What can you do else than storing text? ASTs? besides being incompatible
with the whole world of text editable things you won't win much :/. Besides
source code is quite a compact representation of ast's itself...

cami