I think the next project that needs this feature should write a utility
script for themselves that uses the uv commands to extract files however
makes sense for them. This live experimentation is necessary to figure
what is needed in practice. No one is forced to wait for any changes to
be made to Fossil itself. One day, a set of best practices (i.e., a
vague consensus on which compromises and heuristics most people can live
with most of the time) will emerge, at which point Fossil can adopt them
as useful defaults, but people should always be able to write new
scripts that work best for their specific projects.
On 06/26/18 10:31, Richard Hipp wrote:
My thought was to provide a new setting (perhaps versionable) that
specified a directory relative to the root of the check-out into which
unversioned files are written whenever one does "fossil update" or
"fossil checkout". If the setting is missing or empty, then Fossil
works as it does now. If you turn on the setting, though, then the
unversioned files work just like other files in the check-out, except
that Fossil never records their history.
I overall like the idea, but I can envision an endless stream of feature
creep as people want to do any of the following and more:
- Deal with files having platform-incompatible names (slashes,
backslashes, drive letters, characters unsupported by the filesystem)
- Extract only files within certain size ranges
- Extract only files within certain date ranges
- Extract only files matching certain glob patterns
- Update the unversioned files when checking in
- Get diffs showing which unversioned files have changed
- Handle new files being added to the unversioned directory
- Reverse filename mapping done for platform compatibility when checking
in or adding new unversioned files
- Selectively check in unversioned files along with the rest of the check-in
And on it goes. All of the above can be done today via shell scripts,
so projects wanting to experiment are invited to get started right away.
--
Andy Goth | <andrew.m.goth/at/gmail/dot/com>
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