On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Chad Perrin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 03:07:51PM -0800, Themba Fletcher wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Richie Adler <[email protected]> wrote: >> > If that happens, please make sure to include "git" in the new name. That's >> > what all the naysayers are trying to convert Fossil into, anyway. >> >> +1 :) > > Screw that. Git makes exactly the kind of UI mistakes I'm talking about > eliminating.
Sorry for the hasty and flippant reply -- poor judgement on my part given the passion involved in this discussion. It seems to all boil down to what's a sane default and how liberal fossil should be about removing a file from the disk. I obviously prefer the current, conservative, behavior, and it's one of fossil's selling points as far as I'm concerned. This discussion has devolved somewhat into a comparison with other systems and speculation about user growth if fossil fails to conform, which I think may be getting somewhat counterproductive. I'd like to return to what I think should be the focus, which is discussing what the "right thing" is for fossil to do. As a possible compromise, the combination of a '-f' flag to fossil rm with the ability to add aliases (mentioned as a possible feature by Richard recently in another thread if I'm not mistaken) could solve this completely. The default could remain as is, safe and conservative, and the only downside would be the necessity of communicating the option to new users to alias 'fossil rm' to 'fossil rm -f'. I'll of course even volunteer to write the FAQ entry if this becomes a reality (since I don't really have any place mucking about with fossil's internals). Again, my apologies for adding noise earlier to an important discussion. > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] > _______________________________________________ > 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
