To me, open on fossil does similar work as checkout on some SCM. -- Martin
Le 2011-07-13 à 19:13, Brian Cottingham <spiffyt...@gmail.com> a écrit : > I am a newbie to Fossil, and intermediate to VCS in general. I have a basic > grasp of the Fossil commands needed to accomplish various tasks, but not much > understanding of what's going on under the hood. > > I understand 'open' performs an important job (though I'm fuzzy on most of > what it does), but was wondering if some of the Fossil internals could be > refactored to not need an explicit 'open' command. I.E., Git and SVN don't > need an open command- you just cd into a repo's directory and stuff works. > Could Fossil be reworked to act similarly? > > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Joshua Paine <jos...@letterblock.com> wrote: > On 7/13/2011 6:42 PM, Brian Cottingham wrote: > > If the close command is removed is there still a need for 'open'? > > Truly no offense intended, Brian, but are you one of these newbies we're > speaking about? `fossil open` is absolutely essential. It could be named > something else (though nothing better comes to mind and I don't > recommend it), but it certainly couldn't be gotten rid of. > > > I'd imagine with no close command a lot of newbies will ask "I opened > > my Fossil repo and can't figure out how to close it". > > If this happens, it's better than them wasting their time; building > unhelpful habits of routinely closing the repo; and forming mistaken > beliefs about how the other commands interact with open and close based > on a false model of the system until something goes weird and they come > asking about their latest problem on the list (and we have a couple back > and forths figuring out that their workflow is broken). The preceding is > absolutely not hypothetical but a true summary of any number of threads > on this list. > > -- > Joshua Paine > LetterBlock: Web Applications Built With Joy > http://letterblock.com/ > 301-576-1920 > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
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