On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Laurens Van Houtven <_...@lvh.io> wrote: >> >> >> My question about how this process with the "pending-review" branch >> works was more about the mechanics of how you'd use such a branch to >> facilitate code review. What goes in that branch? How does it get >> there? What is the sequence of fossil commands? > > > You can create the branch as you do the comment. For example: > > fossil commit --branch pending-review > > Or > > fossil commit --branch experimental > > If you forget to do it then, you can always visit a check-in after it > is committed and click on the "Edit" link to do things like revise the > check-in comment, update the check-in time, or move the check-in to a > different branch (such as "experimental" or "pending-review" or > "mistake"). > > Sometimes somebody will check-in a change to trunk that I don't agree > with. When that happens, I just move their check-in off into a > branch. > > A tangent: Note that when you "edit" a check-in, you are not really > changing the check-in. You are, instead, adding additional > information. Fossil does not erase or modify, it only augments. The > original check-in comment, and time, and branch are all still there > for anybody to see. By 'editing' the commit, you are adding a new > record to the repository that says "for display purposes, modify > checking XYZ as follows..." > > Notes also that Fossil allows you to start a new branch named (for > example) "experimental" even if there already exists one or more other > branches with the same name. At > http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/timeline?n=200&r=experimental it > looks like there are a dozen or more "experimental" branches currently > in the Fossil tree.
That is very interesting. How do you achieve the same filtering from the command line? -- Isaac Jurado "The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding" Leonardo da Vinci _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
