On 03/03/15 22:27, j. van den hoff wrote:
On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 22:22:40 +0100, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
On 3/3/15, Warren Young <w...@etr-usa.com> wrote:
Is there a good reason that “fossil mv” and “fossil rm” must be
followed by
OS-level mv and rm commands? I miss the behavior of Subversion
which made
these into a single step.
When I have suggested changing this, I got push back that the change
will break existing scripts.
IIRC there was a lot of aversion at that time on the list along the
line "fossil should not mess with my file system" which I personally
found (and still find) essentially non-sequitur (since every `fossil
up' does of course cause changes of the checkout content anyway). I'm
also not sure what scripts would break and what the amount of work
would be to fix those scripts (except removing the OS-level `mv' and
`rm' actions if those were then executed by fossil itself) in
comparison to getting an overall preferable behaviour (in my view,
anyway). so, I would second the OP's request to make fossil behave
essentially like svn (or hg) regarding `mv' and `rm'. I'm quite sure
that would be the better behaviour in the overwhelming number of use
cases (i.e. right now I would guess that in 99 out of 100 cases
`fossil mv/rm' is followed by the corresponding os-level command, so
...).
I'm in the 1%.
I prefer _not_ to use the command line. So if I want to move a file or
directory I usually do that with a file browser. Same for deleting.
When I eventually come to doing a check-in, renamed/deleted files show up in
the missing tab of my fcommit GUI (*), and it's then, using the GUI, that I
tell fossil what I've done, and then I commit.
If fossil mv also moves files on a filesystem, I'd be happy with that,
so long
as I can still use a file browser as I'm doing now.
If I want to move a file on my hard drive, I think I should be able to do it
however I like, whether it's managed by a version control system or not.
Regards,
Paul
(*) www.p-code.org/fcommit
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