on Nov 16, 2012, Carson Chittom <[email protected]> wrote: > >Richard Hipp <[email protected]> writes: > >> Yes, this is an exceedingly newbie question. But if you have never worked >> with a software configuration management (SCM) system and especially with a >> distributed SCM (DSCM) like Fossil, then the work-flow is probably pretty >> mysterious to you. More experienced hands (read: most others reading this >> list and especially those with check-in privileges to Fossil) need to >> figure out some way of better explaining how Fossil (and other DSCMs) work >> to people who have never seen the concepts before. This is very hard for >> us since the core concepts of DSCM are like second nature - it is like >> trying to explain how to walk - we can't explain it; we just do it without >> thinking. > >If I may suggest, from my own similarly newbie perspective, a good start >would be putting something on the lines of your message in this thread, >which I found very clear, as the (or at least, at the top of) the >documentation page on "Branching, Forking, Merging, and Tagging"[1]. >What's there now is interesting--and worth having, I think--but it just >doesn't answer the user who looks at the docs thinking "I've gotten to >the point in playing with Fossil that I need to branch. How do I do >that?"
I would also agree with this in general. Specifically, I'm now at the point mentioned of needing to branch as a matter of prudent workflow. I see: * This is a useful mechanic in supporting highly dynamic exploration. * An opportunity to underscore Fossil's ability to this end. Too often I'm encumbered by the overhead of movement in technological evolution. Naturally this shall change. ^K > > >[1] http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/branching.wiki > >_______________________________________________ >fossil-users mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
