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...
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 <damien.cassou@gmail.com>:
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Alexandre Bergel <Alexandre.Bergel@inria.fr> 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...
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