[Cuis-dev] Changes not recoverable

[Hilaire Fernandes]

Hi Juan,

Chapter updated accordingly, I left out the details you described 
bellow, though.

https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/Code-Management.html

Le 10/12/2020 à 17:06, Juan Vuletich a écrit :
> Hi Hilaire,
>
> The .changes file includes all the code that was loaded into the 
> image. This (obviously) includes code for Cuis updates and any 
> packages you install. This makes recovering changes by hand harder. 
> But each time you start Cuis and make changes, another file is 
> created, named, for example Cuis5.0-4426.user.changes. If the file 
> already exists, it gets renamed. So, for each session, you get files 
> Cuis5.0-4426.user.xxx.changes where xxx is a number, starting with 
> 001. Those files don't include installed changesets or packages, just 
> user entered code. And you have a file for each session. This makes 
> recovery more convenient. I prefer them to the recovery tools based on 
> the regular .changes file.
>
> Having these additional files for user changes made it possible to 
> discard the modifications to the regular .changes file on image exit. 
> As the image is not saved, these changes are not needed anymore. This 
> prevents the .changes file to grow too much, and it also means that 
> the .changes file is not marked dirty by Git.
>
> We'd rewrite the changes recovery tools to use the *.user.???.changes 
> files instead.

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