Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-30 Thread Eric
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 01:24:44 -0600, Mike Meyer m...@mired.org wrote: Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com wrote: snip Other things that can be redone in a rebase would include: From what you've said, I believe that it's these *other things* that you want: an easy way to munge commits as

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-30 Thread Nico Williams
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Eric e...@deptj.eu wrote: On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 01:24:44 -0600, Mike Meyer m...@mired.org wrote: Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com wrote: snip Other things that can be redone in a rebase would include: From what you've said, I believe that it's these *other

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-30 Thread Michael Richter
If I had written a ten-page post explaining in excruciating detail what rebase is, why it matters, and how to adapt it to the Fossil philosophy, who -but who!- would have read that first post? I, for one, would have. I wouldn't necessarily have agreed, mind, because the disagreement may be

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-30 Thread Michael Richter
I'd just like to add a link to a Git user who *doesn't* like rebasing: http://paul.stadig.name/2010/12/thou-shalt-not-lie-git-rebase-ammend.html On 31 December 2012 07:26, Michael Richter ttmrich...@gmail.com wrote: If I had written a ten-page post explaining in excruciating detail what

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-30 Thread Steve Havelka
On 12/30/2012 03:26 PM, Michael Richter wrote: If I had written a ten-page post explaining in excruciating detail what rebase is, why it matters, and how to adapt it to the Fossil philosophy, who -but who!- would have read that first post? I, for one, would have. I wouldn't

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-30 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 02:05:38PM -0600, Nico Williams wrote: I repeat: git rebase does not manipulate the pre-existing tree, it does not destroy any history already in the tree. The only destructive action that git rebase does is change the commit that a branch _name_ points to, and from a

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-30 Thread Mike Meyer
Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com wrote: Go back through those 30 posts you mentioned. Go back to the very first one from me. I tried to be concise and wrote just three paragraphs that, IMO, captured what was needed. I certainly did not say I want git rebase in fossil and then watched the

[fossil-users] fossil sqlite3

2012-12-30 Thread Michael Richter
Is there any way to execute SQL statements from the command line using fossil sqlite3? The docs for thishttp://www.fossil-scm.org/xfer/help?cmd=sqlite3are a bit skimpy (to say the least). Like what are the *?OPTIONS?* mentioned, precisely? What I'm specifically trying to accomplish is to

Re: [fossil-users] fossil sqlite3

2012-12-30 Thread Edward Berner
On 12/30/2012 10:43 PM, Michael Richter wrote: Is there any way to execute SQL statements from the command line using fossil sqlite3? The docs for this http://www.fossil-scm.org/xfer/help?cmd=sqlite3 are a bit skimpy (to say the least). Like what are the /?OPTIONS?/ mentioned, precisely?