Metacello cannot download the latest zip of a github repo if a zip already exists from a previous commit

On 12/13/15 6:28 AM, Dimitris Chloupis wrote:
> So it looks like that when I do
>
> Metacello new baseline: 'ChronosManager'; repository:
> 'github://kilon/ChronosManager';  load
>
> and I have ChronosManager already installed via the same command
> previously , if the repo has changed in the mean time , it wont get
> the latest zip from github and instead will use the existing zip to
> overwrite my image (Not cool at all).
>
> Obviously a bug ?
No it is intended behavior ... to avoid downloading the entire zipped
repository everytime you reference a project (whether or not there were
changes up on github), the cache is not flushed unless you do a `get`
command as follows:

   Metacello new
     baseline: 'ChronosManager';
     repository: 'github://kilon/ChronosManager';
     get;
     load

(you probably need to use the latest version of Metacello, as well)

I see that I haven't documented this feature and that is "not cool at
all" .... most of the code and documentation was written about 3 years
ago, so users have finally caught up with me and it's time to update the
docs:)

Dale

[1] https://github.com/dalehenrich/metacello-work/issues/380

On 12/13/2015 09:59 PM, Dimitris Chloupis wrote:
> Thanks Dale , good news it works on Pharo 5 :)
>
> Is there a way to delete the previous data = delete the previous zip
> file and all its decompressed folders / files ? I can do it manually
> but I was wondering if metacello offers anything similar.
>
You can delete the github-cache directory anytime you want, and the
cache should be rebuilt the next time you do a build ... Metacello
itself does not offer a service for deleting the cache directory ...

Dale