Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:45:30 +0200
From: Joerg Sonnenberger jo...@britannica.bec.de
To: fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org
Subject: Re: [fossil-users] Veracity (was: Fwd: suggestion on fossil)
Message-ID: 20111019234530.gb10...@britannica.bec.de
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On Thursday 20 of October 2011 17:28:27 jos van kesteren wrote:
Since ODF documents can be unzipped, and their XML contents are text
anyway, why not make a commit program (instead of a merge program) that
unzips the ODF and
stores the XML in the repo ?
that assumes merging /text/ of XML of
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:28:27 +0200
jos van kesteren josvankeste...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
Even that is not necessarily true. You can't merge binary files
like text files -- sure. But it doesn't mean that for a specific
binary format, a merge algorithm isn't possible. Consider ODF
documents
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 06:42:21PM -0400, Richard Hipp wrote:
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Michael Barrow mich...@barrow.me wrote:
No -- please no locks!
Concur. Locks are out-of-band for Fossil. If anybody thinks they really,
really need locks, I'll be happy to offer them a
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 08:18:01AM -0400, Richard Hipp wrote:
-- Forwarded message --
From: Yujianbin yujian...@huawei.com
(2) support lock command, http://veracity-scm.org has this command.
As Yujianbin mentions veracity... I saw some videos about veracity. From the web
2011/10/19 Lluís Batlle i Rossell virik...@gmail.com
Whether to support locks... I think it can help some users, but I don't
have use
cases in my day to day.
My 0.02€: in some 16 years of using source control, i have never once had a
use for (and sometimes been hindered by) locks. IMO
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:50:26 +0200 Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com
wrote:
My 0.02€: in some 16 years of using source control, i have never
once had a use for (and sometimes been hindered by) locks. IMO anyone
who _thinks_ they need them is still living in the 1980's or early
1990's.
Just
On Oct 19, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Stephan Beal wrote:
2011/10/19 Lluís Batlle i Rossell virik...@gmail.com
Whether to support locks... I think it can help some users, but I don't
have use
cases in my day to day.
My 0.02€: in some 16 years of using source control, i have never once had a
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Remigiusz Modrzejewski
l...@maxnet.org.plwrote:
On Oct 19, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Stephan Beal wrote:
My 0.02€: in some 16 years of using source control, i have never once
had a
use for (and sometimes been hindered by) locks. IMO anyone who _thinks_
they
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Remigiusz Modrzejewski
l...@maxnet.org.pl wrote:
I seem to be still in the 80's... So how do you cope with edit conflicts
on binary files today?
i wasn't aware that people use
No -- please no locks! Remember, you are still free to use out-of-band
mechanisms to contact the other developers to coordinate your activity:
email, telephone, tweet, smoke signals, carrier pigeons, etc.
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 19,
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Michael Barrow mich...@barrow.me wrote:
No -- please no locks!
Concur. Locks are out-of-band for Fossil. If anybody thinks they really,
really need locks, I'll be happy to offer them a referral to Veracity.
Note that Fossil works just fine with binary
I sent out a description of how I think light weight locks could be
implemented on top of fossil in a past email. In fact I'm making some good
progress on implementing what I want in a wrapper around fossil (implement
locks in addition to some other things). I can look into making the wrapper
I get it, but I don't get it. Locks don't make sense in a DVCS. If I'm on a
plane (without wifi, of course) and I want to edit a binary file, I'd be
hosed because I wouldn't be able to push the lock to the central server.
What if, like the Fossil main repo for example, there are two central
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 06:42:21PM -0400, Richard Hipp wrote:
The only problem with binary files is that you cannot merge them.
Even that is not necessarily true. You can't merge binary files like
text files -- sure. But it doesn't mean that for a specific binary
format, a merge algorithm isn't
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger jo...@britannica.bec.de
wrote:
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 06:42:21PM -0400, Richard Hipp wrote:
The only problem with binary files is that you cannot merge them.
...moment. A merge program could extract the zip archive, do a *textual*
merge
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Michael Barrow mich...@barrow.me wrote:
I get it, but I don't get it. Locks don't make sense in a DVCS. If I'm on a
plane (without wifi, of course) and I want to edit a binary file, I'd be
hosed because I wouldn't be able to push the lock to the central server.
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:24:17 -0700
Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote:
I sent out a description of how I think light weight locks could be
implemented on top of fossil in a past email. In fact I'm making some good
progress on implementing what I want in a wrapper around fossil (implement
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Mike Meyer m...@mired.org wrote:
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:24:17 -0700
Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote:
I sent out a description of how I think light weight locks could be
implemented on top of fossil in a past email. In fact I'm making some
good
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