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
