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 >
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