On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Andy Goth <andrew.m.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fossil commit is a high-level concept which can't be comfortably > represented in the OS's filesystem API. Mapping POSIX file writes to > Fossil commits writes would yield a messy timeline full of intermediate > versions; temporary files; editor swap files; spurious adds, deletes, > renames; exactly one file per commit; and no comments or merges or tags. > As I said, I haven't tried it. Many years ago, I attended a live demo of Clear Case. At the time, it was mostly a VCS with a file system API. The timeline mess you mentioned was mitigated (partly) by, as I recall, adding a command to the makefile/build script to signal CC to label the user's current "view" as a successful build. (A point where a Fossil user might do a commit.) All the intermediate file commits were still in the repository, but the time line report defaulted to showing only the "build points". Also, as I recall, CC could be configured to automatically pop-up a window to enter commit comments. I'm not saying this is better (or worse) then how Fossil works, only that is how the version of Clear Case I saw worked at the time. The person demo-ing CC talked about how "The Clear Case Way" as near painless as possible for the developers to work with - no need to configure editors or IDEs to support CC, only one simple command to add as the final step of a successful build and only one simple command to designate a build point as ready for integration. The integrator/release engineer had additional commands, but the assumption was that that person was a "process specialist" who would actually want to use a formal UI. This level of automation can be accomplished with Fossil (or Hg, git, etc.), but requires more configuration by the developers - or that they all use a preconfigured IDE, selected by some one (or some committee) within the company.
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