Posted by Stéphane Ducasse on Aug 13, 2013; 7:39pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/loosing-versions-of-method-after-deleting-and-creating-new-tp4703492p4703540.html


On Aug 13, 2013, at 4:34 PM, Sabine Knöfel <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> sometimes I have got the following situation:
>
> 1) I delete a method
> 2) I recognize uhhhh, I need it! it was wrong to delete it!
> 3) I re-write it (or get it from changes file or old image)
> 4) now, the versions of the method are lost

Yes this is bug and nobody took the time to look at it.
Martin is working on a new change management system.


> I would have the following wishes for this situation:
> a) it should be easier for me to get back the deleted method (easier as
> searching the changes file or load old version of image)
> b) after re-writing the method, I want the versions of this method back.

us too.

> Perhaps there is another way to handle this and I did not know it.
> For a while I was renaming methods (e.g. from "methodname" to
> "methodnameOLD") instead of deleting it but this is not the way it should be
> imho.
>
> I was used to have this functionality in envy.

Us too in Pharo but a bug was introduced.

> What do you think about this?

we want more time