Re: [fossil-users] branch assistance needed
On 04/07/2018 16:42, jungle Boogie wrote: On 12:42AM, Wed, Jul 4, 2018 Nicola > Maybe, the sentence above could be complemented with an example of how > to do that and how *not* to do it (e.g., explaining what the effect of > adding a 'trunk' tag to a random check-in is and why it should not be > done). So provide a patch with the enhancement and let's see what happens. IIUC, the sentence refers to an implementation detail: moving check-ins between branches is implemented by simply renaming tags. But, it is easy (at least, for a newcomer like myself) on a first (and possibly second) reading to interpret it in the sense that *the user* can move check-ins between branches that way. As for contributing to the project, currently I'd likely do more harm than good :) I have been using Fossil for a short time, and many details are not entirely clear to me yet (e.g., I still don't understand well the purpose of tagging branches with both branch=name and sym-name), but I am taking notes as I am learning, and I am willing to share them some time in the future for the benefit of other beginners. Nicola ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] branch assistance needed
On 04/07/2018 00:18, Warren Young wrote:> On Jul 3, 2018, at 3:09 PM, Dewey Hylton wrote: >> I then attempted to change that latest commit by adding a 'trunk' tag and cancelling the new branch tag. > > Ow! As a newbie Fossil user, after reading https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/branching.wiki and, specifically, this sentence: > […] check-ins can be freely moved between branches simply by altering > their tags I was (mis)lead to believe that what the OP did might somehow work (well, actually I was skeptic, so I tried on a test repository). Maybe, the sentence above could be complemented with an example of how to do that and how *not* to do it (e.g., explaining what the effect of adding a 'trunk' tag to a random check-in is and why it should not be done). Nicola ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Perception of Fossil
> Git does have its own method (`git am`). Sorry, that should be `git request-pull`. Nicola ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Perception of Fossil
On 15/06/2018 01:32, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 09:59:12PM +0100, Thomas wrote: >> >> Pull requests are not supported, hence the software can't be used for >> community driven open source. > > The pull request interface on GitHub is a feature of GitHub, not of Git. > While it would be nice to have a similar feature built into the Fossil > web UI, doing it the same way would require having a centralized website > on which to implement it. Something similar could theoretically be > supported in Fossil itself, but would not be identical to the way > GitHub's pull request feature works. FWIW, GitHub pull requests have been harshly criticised by Linus Torvalds himself [1]. Git does have its own method (`git am`). Maybe, Fossil could implement something along the lines of `git am`. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-5654674 Nicola PS: recent Fossil fan, list subscriber and first-time poster here. Thanks for not treating me as a bot! ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
