On 02/22/2011 10:21 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
On 22 February 2011 08:21, Philippe Marschall
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 02/21/2011 05:39 PM, Adrian Lienhard wrote:
On Feb 21, 2011, at 17:22 , Camillo Bruni wrote:
how about a file based system and git?
yea, just discussed this very idea an hour ago...
The simplest thing that could work:
- Write out changes to files (for each method and class)
- Use git to commit, push, pull, merge, etc.
- After git actions, load changed files and compile
Been there, done that. Was called DVS, the predecessor of Monticello. It
sucked.
Can you give some details?
What were deliverables (if any)?
What was gone wrong?
Yes, Avi wrote DVS first, and then MC after that. DVS was the first
attempt to bring the "CVS style"
update-with-automerge-fixconflicts-commit cycle to Squeak.
Now, Colin could probably describe this better - I don't think I ever
used DVS - but my guess would be that the hassle of doing the merge
outside of Squeak was the biggest drawback. You will either spend a LOT
of code to try to reflect the merge into Squeak - or you will end up
sitting in a text editor doing conflict resolution on a "line by line"
basis in your fileout format of choice.
I don't want to put a damper on any kind of SCM efforts being made, but
I do think that it is quite hard (not impossible, but hard) to gain real
benefits of using outside infrastructure like for example git.
regards, Göran
