Ha, looking at the use of []'s in the example I mentioned was due to individual programmers attempting version control on a file by file basis. They were sticking revision info inside the brackets while still using Git? Definitely not my recommendation! Isn't that why we use an SCM? I was only reporting this company's decision to not consider Fossil because of the hassle of re-working their multitudes of files or create/maintain Fossil branches using Richard's suggestion.
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Gour <g...@atmarama.net> wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 11:11:55 -0500 > sky5w...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I already voiced a release engineer's reluctance to pursue Fossil due >> to the restriction of '[]'s. > > I'm with computers since time of Apple's IIe and never encountered need > to have filenames with '[]'s. > > Even if such would arise, I'd try as hard as possible to find workaround > instead of fiddling with strange bugs which might occur due to shell's > mechanisms etc., so here I fully agree with Richard's decision. > >> In his case, he did not have the luxury of redesigning the filenaming >> conventions to support this omission. >> I believe he was using Git without a problem. > > Can you try to create some git repo and please try the following: > > git tag "Removed usage of module" > > Mercurial & Fossil can handle such thing without a problem and I believe > that this limitation in git's is much severe than Fossil's lack of > support for strange filenaming. > > Otoh, Git is handling kernel-size projects and is used by hguge number of > developers (I'm not the one) which makes me believe that it's reasonable > to accept some trade-off in order to gain in more important areas. > > > Sincerely, > Gour > > -- > Even a man of knowledge acts according to his own nature, for > everyone follows the nature he has acquired from the three modes. > What can repression accomplish? > > http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810 > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
