Re: [fossil-users] Rewrite of fossil-v-git.wiki. Was: Fossil mentioned on HN

2015-12-18 Thread Ross Berteig
On 12/17/2015 11:45 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Ross Berteig > wrote: Build fossil with JSON support, then you get access to a bunch of features with data transported in JSON with suitable quoting. I'm

Re: [fossil-users] Rewrite of fossil-v-git.wiki. Was: Fossil mentioned on HN

2015-12-18 Thread Stephan Beal
i would be tickled pink to see you take that on :). i am more than happy to help/support in any way, just can't currently commit (no pun intended) to more than moderate amounts of typing, as my arm just can't do it. (That doesn't rule out Skype or similar, though.) - stephan Sent from a

Re: [fossil-users] Rewrite of fossil-v-git.wiki. Was: Fossil mentioned on HN

2015-12-17 Thread Ross Berteig
On 12/16/2015 6:42 PM, Ron W wrote: Actually, I think it's "spread sheets". In the company I work for, it's customers and it's suppliers, when we meet with "project managers" about the status of issues, the PMs are presenting from their spread sheets and updating them as we disuss the

Re: [fossil-users] Rewrite of fossil-v-git.wiki. Was: Fossil mentioned on HN

2015-12-17 Thread Stephan Beal
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Ross Berteig wrote: > > Build fossil with JSON support, then you get access to a bunch of features > with data transported in JSON with suitable quoting. I'm not sure why JSON > is not enabled in the official distributions, it works for me.

Re: [fossil-users] Rewrite of fossil-v-git.wiki. Was: Fossil mentioned on HN

2015-12-17 Thread Eric Rubin-Smith
> > > >> Would be nice if there was a "fossil ticket export" command that would > > >> produce a "proper" CSV file. {snip} > > > A problem with CSV is that there really isn't a clear definition of it > at > > > its edge cases other than testing what Excel will import correctly. > > > > Which is a

[fossil-users] Rewrite of fossil-v-git.wiki. Was: Fossil mentioned on HN

2015-12-17 Thread Richie Adler
Scott Robison decía, en el mensaje "Re: [fossil-users] Rewrite of fossil-v-git.wiki. Was: Fossil mentioned on HN" del 17/12/2015 21:12:09: > Microsoft software has been exporting and importing CSV files for multiple > decades. The CSV "standard" is just over one de

[fossil-users] Rewrite of fossil-v-git.wiki. Was: Fossil mentioned on HN

2015-12-17 Thread Richie Adler
El 17/12/2015 a las 17:28, Ross Berteig escribió: > On 12/16/2015 6:42 PM, Ron W wrote: >> Would be nice if there was a "fossil ticket export" command that would >> produce a "proper" CSV file. While "proper" is still something of a >> debate, most spread sheet apps (Excel, LibreCalc,

Re: [fossil-users] Rewrite of fossil-v-git.wiki. Was: Fossil mentioned on HN

2015-12-16 Thread Stephan Beal
might not be fault tolerant in the Enterprise marketing sense of the term, but it's fairly tolerant of faults at various levels. ;) In any case, it's undisputedly more tolerant of storage-system failures than git is. - stephan beal, sgb...@googlemail.com Written on a keyboard attached to a

Re: [fossil-users] Rewrite of fossil-v-git.wiki. Was: Fossil mentioned on HN

2015-12-16 Thread Eric Rubin-Smith
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > Based on comments on HN and on this mailing list, I have attempted to > rewrite the fossil-v-git.wiki document > (https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki) to > better summarize the differences

Re: [fossil-users] Rewrite of fossil-v-git.wiki. Was: Fossil mentioned on HN

2015-12-16 Thread Scott Robison
Is a sql database fault tolerant? I guess so, but think that is not what most people consider fault tolerant. On Dec 16, 2015 9:36 AM, "Stephan Beal" wrote: > Section 4.1: in fossil, but not git: fault-tolerant storage. > > - stephan beal, sgb...@googlemail.com >

Re: [fossil-users] Rewrite of fossil-v-git.wiki. Was: Fossil mentioned on HN

2015-12-16 Thread Steve Stefanovich
of fossil-v-git.wiki. Was: Fossil mentioned on HN Based on comments on HN and on this mailing list, I have attempted to rewrite the fossil-v-git.wiki document (https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki) to better summarize the differences between the two products. Your

[fossil-users] Rewrite of fossil-v-git.wiki. Was: Fossil mentioned on HN

2015-12-16 Thread Richard Hipp
Based on comments on HN and on this mailing list, I have attempted to rewrite the fossil-v-git.wiki document (https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki) to better summarize the differences between the two products. Your feedback on the rewrite, and especially suggestions

Re: [fossil-users] Rewrite of fossil-v-git.wiki. Was: Fossil mentioned on HN

2015-12-16 Thread Stephan Beal
Section 4.1: in fossil, but not git: fault-tolerant storage. - stephan beal, sgb...@googlemail.com Written on a keyboard attached to a telephone attached to a TV screen, via an app written for use on touchscreens. Please excuse brevity, typos, and whatnot. On Dec 16, 2015 5:16 PM, "Richard