On 14 September 2012 15:52, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Michal Suchanek <hramr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> The thing to which promoters of immutable history are blind is that >> while exact history record of development of particular feature might >> be interesting and educational it is not the primary purpose if VCS. > > > The exact preservation of history is considered "best practice" for > high-reliability and safety-critical systems. Fossil, for example, was > designed to meet the VCS requirements of DO-178B level A. (Ref: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178B) > > You might not think that exact preservation of history is one of the primary > purposes of VCS, but not every project manager thinks exactly like you. >
I don't think that's a bad goal. The failure I see is inadequate tools for working with the resulting commit jungle. And if you were really obstinate about that then fossil fails in that it does not record *every* change, it requires explicit commits. Thanks Michal _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
