Re: [fossil-users] Tip: abusing autosync to abort a commit

2014-10-06 Thread Scott Robison
On Oct 6, 2014 12:26 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, all, (This just happened...) The autosync option provides (incidentally, not specifically by design) a feature one doesn't have if it is turned off: the ability to abort a commit within a small (and unknown/varying) time

Re: [fossil-users] Tip: abusing autosync to abort a commit

2014-10-06 Thread Scott Robison
Bah! Commit not conmit. Stupid phone keyboard. On Oct 6, 2014 12:39 PM, Scott Robison sc...@casaderobison.com wrote: On Oct 6, 2014 12:26 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, all, (This just happened...) The autosync option provides (incidentally, not specifically by

Re: [fossil-users] Tip: abusing autosync to abort a commit

2014-10-06 Thread Stephan Beal
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Scott Robison sc...@casaderobison.com wrote: I have that functionality without auto sync. I don't use the -m comment option so I get a text editor showing me what has changed before I type the message. If I decide I need to not commit, I don't enter a message

Re: [fossil-users] Tip: abusing autosync to abort a commit

2014-10-06 Thread Scott Robison
I just wanted to give you a little grief based on past -m comments. :) On Oct 6, 2014 12:42 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Scott Robison sc...@casaderobison.com wrote: I have that functionality without auto sync. I don't use the -m comment

Re: [fossil-users] Tip: abusing autosync to abort a commit

2014-10-06 Thread Ron W
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Scott Robison sc...@casaderobison.com wrote: I have that functionality without auto sync. I don't use the -m comment option so I get a text editor showing me what has changed before I

Re: [fossil-users] Tip: abusing autosync to abort a commit

2014-10-06 Thread Stephan Beal
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm. I seem to recall you extolling the virtues of command line editing. :) Touché! (That's a word we don't get to use nearly enough in everyday speech!) I confess I didn't think if this an a reason to use an actual editor.

Re: [fossil-users] Tip: abusing autosync to abort a commit

2014-10-06 Thread Stephan Beal
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Scott Robison sc...@casaderobison.com wrote: I just wanted to give you a little grief based on past -m comments. :) LOL! i expected you might be, but wasn't sure if you had arrived on the list the last time that topic came up. But seriously, though, your

Re: [fossil-users] Tip: abusing autosync to abort a commit

2014-10-06 Thread Ron W
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: But seriously, though, your argument is a good reason not to use -m and rely on $EDITOR instead. i think my problem is that i regularly use 2 (sometimes 3) SCMs, namely fossil, svn, and (sometimes) git, often over a

Re: [fossil-users] Tip: abusing autosync to abort a commit

2014-10-06 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Stephan Beal on Mon, 06 Oct 2014 20:25:55 +0200: The autosync option provides (incidentally, not specifically by design) a feature one doesn't have if it is turned off: the ability to abort a commit within a small (and unknown/varying) time frame. joke Perhaps there should be

Re: [fossil-users] Tip: abusing autosync to abort a commit

2014-10-06 Thread Scott Robison
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Andy Bradford amb-fos...@bradfords.org wrote: Thus said Stephan Beal on Mon, 06 Oct 2014 20:25:55 +0200: The autosync option provides (incidentally, not specifically by design) a feature one doesn't have if it is turned off: the ability to abort a

Re: [fossil-users] Tip: abusing autosync to abort a commit

2014-10-06 Thread paul
On 06/10/14 19:41, Scott Robison wrote: Bah! Commit not conmit. Stupid phone keyboard. On Oct 6, 2014 12:39 PM, Scott Robison sc...@casaderobison.com mailto:sc...@casaderobison.com wrote: On Oct 6, 2014 12:26 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com mailto:sgb...@googlemail.com wrote:

Re: [fossil-users] Tip: abusing autosync to abort a commit

2014-10-06 Thread David Mason
On 6 October 2014 15:05, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: good reason not to use -m and rely on $EDITOR instead. i think my problem is that i regularly use 2 (sometimes 3) SCMs, namely fossil, svn, and (sometimes) git, often over a remote connection on systems with no emacs installed

Re: [fossil-users] Tip: abusing autosync to abort a commit

2014-10-06 Thread Stephan Beal
The problem is access - i don't have root access on most systems, and many others don't have compilers, or have quota limitations, weird/old OS versions, etc. So -m, which works the same in all environments, has become what my fingers just do without having to be told. - stephan Sent from a