Revise not working anymore for files that contain type definition (but the type is not changed)

[thofma]

I noticed a regression with files that contain type definitions.

I have a file, which contains a type definition

mutable struct A
  x
end

and some method definitions

function g()
end

If the file is tracked with Revise and I change g, I get:

┌ Error: Failed to revise ...
│   exception =
│    invalid redefinition of constant A

which I did not expect, since I did not change the type definition. This is with Revise version 3.5.1.

I quickly tried with Revise version 3.4.0 and it is working as expected. This means, that when only g is changed but not A, then the file is revised properly.

[lgoettgens]

The same thing happened to me. However, it only occurs in a subset of the files of the given structure, and I cannot find any way to distinguish them.
Pinning the version to 3.4.0 seems to be a workaround for now, thanks for the tip @thofma .

[fingolfin]

@timholy any idea what might be causing this?

[timholy]

I need to spend a week or so on Revise. No time right now though.

[fingolfin]

It doesn't suffice anymore to pin Revise to 3.4.0 as it fails to precompile one also has to pin JuliaInterpreter to 0.9.26

[kahaaga]

Same issue here with Revise v3.5.10 on Julia 1.9.4, running on a Macbook Air M2 (2022 model), macOS Ventura 13.3.

I'm tracking changes in a package I'm developing. Any change to files that contain a type definition triggers the same error as above, even if the type definition was not changed.

The following workaround solves it for me (thanks, @fingolfin):

(@v1.9) pkg> activate . # in whatever project folder you're working
(MyProject) pkg> add JuliaInterpreter@0.9.26
(MyProject) pkg> add Revise@3.4.0
julia> using Revise, MyProject

[timholy]

At least with Julia 1.10 and LoweredCodeUtils 2.4.0, I cannot replicate this. Here's my setup:

tim@diva:/tmp/TestRevise$ ls -l
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 tim tim  186 Dec 30 10:36 Manifest.toml
-rw-r--r-- 1 tim tim  128 Dec 30 10:35 Project.toml
drwxr-xr-x 2 tim tim 4096 Dec 30 10:35 src
tim@diva:/tmp/TestRevise$ cat src/TestRevise.jl
module TestRevise

export g

mutable struct A
    x
end

function g()
end

end # module TestRevise

And then

julia> using TestRevise
Precompiling TestRevise
  1 dependency successfully precompiled in 1 seconds

julia> g()

# Now edit `g` to return 1
julia> 1+1
2

julia> g()
1

All seems working as expected.

[aviatesk]

I haven't been able to replicate this issue with Julia 1.10 and the latest versions of Revise and its dependencies. So it seems reasonable to close the issue at this point.

[thofma]

I can still reproduce this, although with a slightly more complicated file. I will try to find a small example.

[thofma]

With the following, it still fails for me:

 /tmp/TestRevise  cat src/TestRevise.jl
module TestRevise

abstract type A{S, T} end

mutable struct B{S} <: A{S, B}
end

g() = 2

end # module TestRevise

julia> TestRevise.g()
1

# Now edit g
julia> 1 + 1
 Error: Failed to revise /tmp/TestRevise/src/TestRevise.jl
│   exception =
│    invalid redefinition of constant TestRevise.B
│    Stacktrace:
│     [1] top-level scope
│       @ /tmp/TestRevise/src/TestRevise.jl:5
│    Revise evaluation error at /tmp/TestRevise/src/TestRevise.jl:5

Can you reproduce @aviatesk?