On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 06:42:21PM -0400, Richard Hipp wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Michael Barrow 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
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:28:27 +0200
jos van kesteren 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 for a moment. A
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 o
>>
>> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:45:30 +0200
>> From: Joerg Sonnenberger
>> To: fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org
>> Subject: Re: [fossil-users] Veracity (was: Fwd: suggestion on fossil)
>> Message-ID: <20111019234530.gb10...@britannica.bec.de>
>
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Mike Meyer wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:24:17 -0700
> Matt Welland 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
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:24:17 -0700
Matt Welland 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
> locks in addit
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Michael Barrow 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.
>
Sure it w
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger 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 the XML files an
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
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
serv
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
ava
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Michael Barrow 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 files. Fossil's self
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 wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Ste
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Stephan Beal 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 them for b
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Remigiusz Modrzejewski
wrote:
>
> 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
> > need them is
On Oct 19, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Stephan Beal wrote:
> 2011/10/19 Lluís Batlle i Rossell
>
>> 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 fo
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:50:26 +0200 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 need them is still living in the 1980's or early
> 1990's.
Just for fun: a lock s
2011/10/19 Lluís Batlle i Rossell
> 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 anyone who _thinks_
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 08:18:01AM -0400, Richard Hipp wrote:
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Yujianbin
>
> (2) support lock command, http://veracity-scm.org has this command.
As Yujianbin mentions veracity... I saw some videos about veracity. From the web
page, the author
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