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.
>
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