On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:14:21AM +0200, Stefan Bellon wrote:
>
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>
> One could check whether it exists in the file system and one could
> check whether exists as tag/branch and decide to use the one that
> exists. However, if "trunk" exists both, as branch and as
> file/directory, then a priority decision has to be done anyway and this
> seems strange as you cannot rely on the behaviour when writing generic
> fossil interaction scripts.
For sure, the priority issue have to be fixed. Once fix, I would never
have problem anymore because I almost always use this new feature for
the current directory.
fossil tim .
If writing a script, this script must specify all argument of timeline
and there will have no ambiguity anymore.
$ fossil help timeline
Usage: fossil "?WHEN? ?CHECKIN|DATETIME? ?FILE? ?OPTIONS?
If the script always specify ?WHEN? and ?CHECKIN?, it will always work.
To have same behaviour as when they are not specified, you use
WHEN=current and CHECKIN=current.
This was also true before the new feature.
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>
> fossil timeline -f README.txt
>
> This way the previous behaviour would be completely unaltered without
> any compatibility issues, but the new way is possible as well by just
> adding -f (or whatever) to the command. Alternatively one could
> introduce a new command "ftimeline", but I think a switch would be
> sufficient.
>
I would not use -f. The main benefit of that new feature is that you can
specify a directory to have timeline for a part of a repo. If you
specify a file, it's like using finfo.
If the ?WHEN? and ?CHECKIN? have priority, and we can prefix ?FILE? with
"./" when we want explicitly specify a file or a directory.
A possibility could be to only consider the argument as ?FILE? in the
following cases:
- starting by "./"
- starting by "/" (when using absolute path)
- when it's "." (for current directory"
Regards,
--
Martin G.
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