On Jul 10, 2014 9:24 PM, "Timothy Beyer" <bey...@fastmail.net> wrote: > > At Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:10:09 -0700, > B Harder wrote: > > > > It's clear people are split on what The Right Thing To Do is re: symliks. > > > > I'm personally not sure; I don't use them in the course of development. That said, I feel like > > they should *not* be in indirrected-through as a matter of treatment. It's understandable those > > that _would_ like them to be followed say: "they're there, follow them.", but what if a link > > points to /etc? You want to publish your system config files? > > The funny thing is that the reason above is exactly why I want that feature. > Perhaps one man's junk is another man's treasure. :) > > I know that a lot of people are going to object and say that fossil is not an > appropriate tool for system configuration backups, but in my experience it is > ideal for that purpose.
I don't disagree. > My issue as far as The Right Thing To Do (TM) goes is that I'm not convinced > either is more correct than the other. It's certainly not cut and dried :) > Although such a restriction wins in > safety, it makes fossil significantly less general purpose, so it loses big in > extensibility (notably, for system administration tasks). > > That is why I think the default should be what you and others advocated, but a > non-default option should always be available so as to not artificially > restrict domains of usage where fossil turns out to be very useful. Q: what sorts of constraints keep you from rooting your repo at /etc, instead of relying on symlinks? What sort of features do you feel symlinks buy you, versus rooting the repo in (eg) /etc? I do use fossil in similar ways regularly, and have used it directly in /etc on occasion for specific tasks, for a limited time. > Tim > _______________________________________________ > 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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