[Q] Removing changes file content.

> Even though after running condenseChanges, I do have multiple  
> versions of some method. (I can see this with VersionBrowser).  
> Thanks anyway. I'll try more.
>
> On Jan 16, 2006, at 2:24 AM, Lukas Renggli wrote:
>
>>> I might have done something wrong, but after condenseChanges and
>>> condenseSources the size of sources file increased as much as  
>>> changes
>>> file. Yes, the changes file is 4k now but total size is not  
>>> decreased.
>>
>> #condenseChanges just removes the version history from the
>> changes-file, so if you have accepted the same method twice it just
>> keeps the last version. This should decrease the size of your
>> changes-file.
>>
>> #condenseSources is something completely different. I guess there is
>> no reason that someone wants to do this on its own, unless they are
>> releasing Squeak 4.0, that (probably) will be shipped with a new
>> source-file. This will not change the total size of the changes- plus
>> the sources-file, as the changes will be moved to the source.
>>
>> I am not sure, if everything I wrote here is correct, this is just
>> what I think these methods do. I need to do a #condenseChanges from
>> time to time to reduce the size of the changes-file, because it
>> reaches its limits; but I've never done a #condenseSources.
>>
>> Lukas

> You should have at most two versions, one in the sources file and one  
> in the changes file. If you have more, then condenseChanges did not  
> work properly.
>
> One particular thing that breaks when running condenseChanges is  
> overrides, which relies on the method history in the changes file.
>
> Attached is a fix for that, it preserves method histories for methods  
> in a "*-override" category. It's pretty dumb, retaining each and  
> every version of that method. An improvement would be to only keep  
> the necessary ones, that is, those most recent after the  
> categorization changed. But it works ;-)
>
> - Bert -
>
> Am 16.01.2006 um 04:10 schrieb Sungjin Chun:
>
> > Even though after running condenseChanges, I do have multiple  
> > versions of some method. (I can see this with VersionBrowser).  
> > Thanks anyway. I'll try more.
> >
> > On Jan 16, 2006, at 2:24 AM, Lukas Renggli wrote:
> >
> >>> I might have done something wrong, but after condenseChanges and
> >>> condenseSources the size of sources file increased as much as  
> >>> changes
> >>> file. Yes, the changes file is 4k now but total size is not  
> >>> decreased.
> >>
> >> #condenseChanges just removes the version history from the
> >> changes-file, so if you have accepted the same method twice it just
> >> keeps the last version. This should decrease the size of your
> >> changes-file.
> >>
> >> #condenseSources is something completely different. I guess there is
> >> no reason that someone wants to do this on its own, unless they are
> >> releasing Squeak 4.0, that (probably) will be shipped with a new
> >> source-file. This will not change the total size of the changes- plus
> >> the sources-file, as the changes will be moved to the source.
> >>
> >> I am not sure, if everything I wrote here is correct, this is just
> >> what I think these methods do. I need to do a #condenseChanges from
> >> time to time to reduce the size of the changes-file, because it
> >> reaches its limits; but I've never done a #condenseSources.
> >>
> >> Lukas
>
>