On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:12 PM, John Found <johnfo...@evrocom.net> wrote: > For me "least astonishment" means simply: If the file is changed by VCS, > then later, VCS must knows about this fact and must take it into account. > If the user changed the file by any other way (edit, copy paste, etc.) VCS > should > consider this file "edited". Any other variant is acceptable only if the VCS > additionally detects some kind of edits, made by the user - for example > moving, > renaming or deletion of the files. > IMHO, omiting actions, explicitly declared by command is not acceptable.
I think for most people, "least astonishment" means the tool (for whatever tool) did what they wanted it to do. Usually, I am astonished when the tool does what I wanted for any operation other than the basics. _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
