Re: [fossil-users] Editing a tag causes confusion on branches?

2010-04-05 Thread D. Richard Hipp
On Apr 5, 2010, at 12:34 AM, Jeremy Cowgar wrote: I created a new branch on as 0.2.0. I then however, realized I goofed. I wanted the branch to be 0.2. I would later create a tag for the 0.2.0 release of the 0.2 branch (expecting 0.2.1, 0.2.3, etc... which would all be tags in the 0.2

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil GUI for local source tree operations

2010-04-05 Thread Twylite
Hi, As for the case of removing illegal insertions, I think it is far better to have the real history saying we had these from this date to that date, as you can see, but you can also see that they were removed at a particular time and not used thereafter. This follows the accounting

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil GUI for local source tree operations

2010-04-05 Thread Gé Weijers
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Twylite wrote: The point about accountability is well made though - perhaps the shun action should cause an entry in the timeline at the time the shun is effected, indicating the artifact that was shunned, the parent of the shunned artifact, and a comment (why it was

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil GUI for local source tree operations

2010-04-05 Thread David Bainbridge
Hence, Fossil has from the beginning supported the ability to PGP sign check-ins.  The PGP signature is optional.  If a check-in is signed, you know exactly who originally made that check-in.  In situations where it matters, simply assume that an unsigned check-in is malicious and avoid using

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil GUI for local source tree operations

2010-04-05 Thread Wilson, Ronald
Hence, Fossil has from the beginning supported the ability to PGP sign check-ins. The PGP signature is optional. If a check-in is signed, you know exactly who originally made that check-in. In situations where it matters, simply assume that an unsigned check-in is malicious and avoid using

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil GUI for local source tree operations

2010-04-05 Thread Wilson, Ronald
Is there a way yet to require a GPG signature for all checkins? No, not yet. There are two things that could be done here. (1) Require all check- ins to be signed in the client software. Of course, a hacker could easily defeat such a system, so it is really only to prevent honest

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil GUI for local source tree operations

2010-04-05 Thread D. Richard Hipp
On Apr 5, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Wilson, Ronald wrote: I'm just not sure how that really works out in practice. If you allow remote users to perform checkins, how do you sort it out if someone makes a mess? Maybe I just don't understand tagging. I would want to be able to move untrusted

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil GUI for local source tree operations

2010-04-05 Thread Andreas Kupries
D. Richard Hipp wrote: On Apr 5, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Wilson, Ronald wrote: I'm just not sure how that really works out in practice. If you allow remote users to perform checkins, how do you sort it out if someone makes a mess? Maybe I just don't understand tagging. I would want to be able to

Re: [fossil-users] Editing a tag causes confusion on branches?

2010-04-05 Thread D. Richard Hipp
On Apr 5, 2010, at 7:38 PM, Jeremy Cowgar wrote: On 4/5/2010 7:12 AM, D. Richard Hipp wrote: In the Tags And Properties section of http://fossil.josl.org/info/0bc11bf7ae you will see that you did not change the branch - the branch is still 0.2.0. You just added a new tag named 2.0. To