On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 8:49 PM, j. van den hoff <[email protected]>wrote:
> sure, but it is not quite what you would have liked to have in that moment. > and that "man, if I could" moment might happen quite often, wenn summed > over > the user community. Agreed, but in that case it would probably have taken me longer to (A) figure out if fossil could do that and (B) search through the help than it would to do "fossil cat" on both files and diff them myself (i live on the command line already). of course I do know C soso but haven't used it seriously in many years. > so I'm quite sure it would not be the best idea to dive into the fossil > code > right now and to mess it up. ;-) i had given up C in 1995 in favour of higher-level languages (scripting, which was new to me at the time), and Fossil was the reason i returned to it in late 2007 (though i had been doing a lot of C++ since 2000, so getting back into it wasn't too difficult). Since i got into hacking fossil, probably 80% of my open source code (not counting fossil) has been in C. Try it - you might like it :). > > of email text descriptions ;). >> > > that's what I did I thought? Yes, of course :). > I mean the question really is: is this a big change to the code > or is the bottleneck to _understand_ what to do (because in the latter > case one of the > developers might need an hour where someone else needs a month or > whatever). > i can't comment on the complexity. Only a small handful of the devs (not me!) have ever done any significant work on the low-level delta/manifest/lineage/diff bits. The vast majority of the code at that level has only ever been hacked upon by Richard. While porting in code to libfossil, i'm fairly certain i'm the only human, other than Richard, who has seen some of these bits in years ;). > and to be clear: I did not try to "demand" such a change. I just think it > would > make fossil a better program if it had this functionality. No, it didn't come across as a demand - you've backed up all of your talk with decent arguments. It's just that the feature doesn't much interest anyone who's capable of/willing to implement it ;). -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal
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