> Personally, I thought we were talking about practical UX stuff here, not > philosophy.
That's not really fair -- this discussion is *couched* in applicable philosophies. On 3/4/15, Warren Young <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 4, 2015, at 3:27 PM, bch <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Before you reject the idea of one-step rm totally >> >> Oh, to be clear, I'm presenting this as a thought exercise. > > If that's all this is, we can send it to the philosophy department and move > on to other topics. > > Personally, I thought we were talking about practical UX stuff here, not > philosophy. > >>> Many filesystems and OSes combine file versioning and file management >> >> Sure, but: fossil is distinct from the filesystems. DOS, ext<n>, ffs, >> etc., etc., etc are not versioning/managment filesystems, and there >> ought to be a principle-of-least-surprise/being-a-good-citizen kept in >> mind. > > The principle of least surprise says that Fossil should behave like other > VCSes. Fossil is odd-man-out for mv, and emulates #5 in popularity on the > list of VCSes I surveyed for rm. The principle says it should be emulating > #1-3 instead. > > I'm ranking VCS popularity as git, svn, hg, cvs, bzr, fossil based on this > table: > > http://goo.gl/M7ogNH > > That matches pretty well with what I see used in the wild. > >> Is it >> a Good Thing, or again, as case of overstepping bounds ? Honest >> question. > > One of Fossil's primary virtues is uncommon simplicity for a DVCS. It isn't > as simple as svn, but wherever possible, it generally takes no more work to > do something in Fossil as in svn. > > I'm proposing that we fix one of the remaining usability gaps. > >> I'll review your linked paper on hg for more ideas. > > It's just several brief paragraphs of text and a 5x5 table. It'll only take > you a few minutes to get through. > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
