On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 8:00 AM, <fossil-users-requ...@lists.fossil-scm.org> wrote: > > Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 11:34:48 +0100 > From: John Pateman <jpate...@gmail.com> > Subject: [fossil-users] Smudge and clean equivalents? > > Is there any way to implement functionality equivalent to git smudge and > clean in fossil? > > I would like to use fossil for a number of Kicad electronic projects. > Kicad uses simple text files for describing the schematic and circuit > layout so is a very suitable candidate for version control. Several users > have used git to facilitate this but I would like to use fossil. Due to > some internal book keeping there are changes made to the first line of the > file which records a date stamp when the file is opened even if nothing > else changes.
This sounds like a Kicad problem, not a VCS problem. The Kicad devs may a very good reason - to them - for saving such internal bookkeeping back to the file, but they should also provide a way to disable saving those bookkeeping-only changes. Even without a VCS, people edit older versions of documents. Therefore, this bookkeeping data can't be operationally critical to Kicad itself. And any workflow where such bookkeeping-only changes are important would likely want the VCS to track those changes.
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