Of course you have no obligations but I think Fossil is getting more popular. That means you will break more people's scripts and expectations. Just something to consider.
Best regards, Jakob Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> skrev: >On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Stefan Bellon <sbel...@sbellon.de> wrote: > >> On Mon, 07 Oct, Richard Hipp wrote:> Most people are more interested in >> the fact that the line changed. >> > The identity of the editor is of secondary importance, >> >> I beg to differ strongly. The command is called "annotate" and not >> "cat", "print" or "view". There is only one other "in wide use" version >> control system (that I know of) that omits the author information as >> well, and that is VSS/TFS. All other widely used ones show the author >> information in their "annotate/blame" output (namely ClearCase, CVS, >> Git, MKS/PTC, SVN, to name but a few). >> > >Fossil has never guaranteed specific output for any given command, nor has >it ever guaranteed usage-compatibility with any other tools. The output of >any and all commands is subject to change without notice between any given >versions. As a general rule, whoever hacks the feature determines the >output format. i would go so far as to say that Fossil's output has always >been essentially unusable for reliable scripting purposes (and some of that >(but not this particular bit) is my fault). > >> We will take your email as a feature request to add the username back >> > in as a run-time option. >> >> Apart from the compatibility issue, I'd be happy to have the option >> back. Unless this happens, we are stuck with version 1.24. >> > >Work is underway on a library interface[1] which will allow clients to >customize the output however they like, but the Annotate feature is not yet >implemented. > >[1] http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/repos/libfossil/index.cgi/timeline > >Reminder to self: in theory we have all the bits we need to implement >annotate, so that might be a good thing to do before moving on to the more >difficult parts. > >-- >----- stephan beal >http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ >http://gplus.to/sgbeal > >_______________________________________________ >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