On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 6:05 AM, Paulus Tuerah <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > I'm new to Fossil, and I'm coming from SVN world (using TortoiseSVN). > Welcome aboart! > I want to try DVCS, and after review some DVCS, I like the simplicity of > fossil, especially the one file executable and one file repository. > But what prevent me to use fossil is: there is no usable Fossil GUI > similar like TortoiseSVN. > We're still a long way from having such a thing. There is a library interface for fossil in development, but i would guess (as its main developer) that we're a year or so away from being able to fully support an application like Tortoise. > The problem is if there are many files, the command is too long (fossil > commit a.txt b.txt c.txt ......) and got error. > If I commit partially it's okay, but of course I can't commit partially. > That's a limit of Windows, unfortunately - most platforms have very large limits for command arguments. > So is it possible for fossil commit to have new option --commit-file > files.txt, similar like --message-file msg.txt? > Then the command would be: > fossil commit --commit-file files.txt > > Also the same case with fossil add, delete, diff, gdiff, revert > You can do that already using a little known feature: fossil ... --args FILENAME each line represents one filename or --key VALUE pair for the arguments list. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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