Hello,
I would just like to report something that happened to me today.
As I was working on a project, I tried inserting an instance variable to
one of my classes.
Starting from this moment something became very weird. First, some
subclasses were not listed as subclasses anymore, then I realised during
the execution that allocating my new instance variable was actually
modifying another instance variable.
I tried digging up a bit and I found out that many of my methods were a
complete mess.
When browsing with Nautilus the title of the method was for example:
"addProperty:key:". However the corpse of the method was totally random
with something like that for example:
"ient;
width: 1.
graphic strokeStyle: _strokeStyle"
So, reportedly, the name of the method was "ient;" ...
Basically I had many methods where the source code was just random chunks
of other methods.
The funnier thing is that everything worked perfectly fine during
execution.
I tried to look at different backup images I had to see when everything
began to go wrong and I realised I had been working with broken source code
for about a week.
So if I understand correctly, I probably messed up with the .changes file
(I don't remembr how but maybe I copied the .image without the .changes or
renamed the .image or i don't know).
And now the compiled code is okay but the source code is lost so everything
is working fine until the system tries to recompile everything ?
Now my question is : is there a way to fix the issue ? I tried exporting
the package to a .mcz but I had bugs everywhere. I imported the old working
package to an .mcz and tried browsing the differences with the broken one
just to manually get back eveything I changed during this week. But I
couldn't cause there were bugs everytime I tried to browse the changes.
Basically, are all my changes definitely lost or is there a way to get it
back somehow (at least the raw source code) ?
I know that I fucked up and this is my fault but it would have been nice if
something (anything) told me earlier that I did something wrong. I've been
adding / modifying lots of methods and even executing the program for a
week now and absolutely nothing told me that something was wrong until I
tried adding an instance variable.
I am in a situation where I actually wrote and "saved" code and now it
seems lost... that's frustrating :(
Thanks,
Matthieu
