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Hack to show timestamp and author on versions of methods

Hi Guys
In my opinion it is really uncomfortable working without the timestamp of a
specific version of a method, I read the explanation of Esteban in the
previous thread
(http://forum.world.st/pharo-8-method-versions-how-to-see-author-timestamp-td5116685.html)
but probably it will take some time before to see a new VersionBrowser and
the history based on git is not really a solution to me.
So it took a day of debugging but I discovered the flow of "versions" in
Pharo 8 and I added the logic of the timestamp and the author of a method.

Basically I created a subclass of MessageList I named it VersionMessageList,
in this way the original MessageList is preserved for other goals I can
safely ignore.

Now
1) You can file-in VersionMessageList.st (see below) and
2) You have to change VersionBrowser >> initializePresenters using
VersionMessageList this way:

VersionBrowser >> initializePresenters
messageList := self instantiate: VersionMessageList .
....

Be careful, it's a hack and it's working on Pharo8, I don't know if it works
on Pharo9

Cheers
Davide

VersionMessageList.st
<http://forum.world.st/file/t77843/VersionMessageList.st>

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Kasper Osterbye

Re: Hack to show timestamp and author on versions of methods

Cheers

Wonderful to have this hack.

While I am looking forward to getting git-history in-image, I still appreciate the existing tool for its finer granularity and the fact that I am amble to go back to every save I did.

Best,

Kasper

> On 10 Feb 2021, at 16.49, Davide Varvello via Pharo-users <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys
> In my opinion it is really uncomfortable working without the timestamp of a
> specific version of a method, I read the explanation of Esteban in the
> previous thread
> (http://forum.world.st/pharo-8-method-versions-how-to-see-author-timestamp-td5116685.html)
> but probably it will take some time before to see a new VersionBrowser and
> the history based on git is not really a solution to me.
> So it took a day of debugging but I discovered the flow of "versions" in
> Pharo 8 and I added the logic of the timestamp and the author of a method.
>
>
> Basically I created a subclass of MessageList I named it VersionMessageList,
> in this way the original MessageList is preserved for other goals I can
> safely ignore.
>
> Now
> 1) You can file-in VersionMessageList.st (see below) and
> 2) You have to change VersionBrowser >> initializePresenters using
> VersionMessageList this way:
>
> VersionBrowser >> initializePresenters
> messageList := self instantiate: VersionMessageList .
> ....
>
> Be careful, it's a hack and it's working on Pharo8, I don't know if it works
> on Pharo9
>
> Cheers
> Davide
>
>
>
> VersionMessageList.st
> <http://forum.world.st/file/t77843/VersionMessageList.st>
>
>
>
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> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html