On 3 Aug 2013 13:50:46 -0600 "Andy Bradford" <amb-fos...@bradfords.org> wrote:
> I distinctly recall reading a description of the differences > between ``branches'' in Fossil and other DVCS (specifically Git), > which likely explains why things are the way they are: Yeah, this explains things: "So to a first approximation, branches in Git are developer-centric whereas branches in Fossil are feature-centric." But having private branches in Fossil is then not consistent with: "One consequence of the "everybody-sees-everything" focus of Fossil is that branch names are global and are part of the distributed and synchronized content of a Fossil repository, rather than being private and user-specific as they are in Git." > This is not to say that things shouldn't change in Fossil regarding > how branches work. Well, recalling how much opposition was against using some more 'standard' markup (ala markdown) and how long it took to implement it, I would not hold by breath in regard to changing branches mechanism. :-) > Regarding private branches, I do use them, however, I'm not yet > certain when I would ever want to scrub them, singly, or as a whole. In Git, as well as in other DVCS which I used before (darcs, bzr, hg), it's quita natural to get rid of 'used' feature branches when they are merged. > But it does seem like private branches could be used to work on > things that don't get sync'ed and then merge them in when ready. That's correct. > This does mean, however, that the whole history of the development > of whatever feature/bug is being worked on won't show up, but I see > that as a benefit. Yes, I agree that having private branch for unfinished/experimental work is useful, but, otoh, it seems quite logical if I one can make *single* branch as private, why not deleting it? Sincerely, Gour -- Perform your prescribed duty, for doing so is better than not working. One cannot even maintain one's physical body without work. http://www.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
