Richard Hipp escribió:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Gour <g...@atmarama.net
> <mailto:g...@atmarama.net>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Now, I'm curious about some of the items from the TODO list
>     (http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/wiki?name=To+Do+List)
>     and their status:
> 
>     * Uncommit
> 
>     All what I need is simple mechanism to quickly 'fix' some wrong commits
>     without tinkering deep into the commit history.
> 
>     ...
> 
>  
> 
>     The idea is when one creates short-lived feature branch, experiment
>     with it a bit, and when it's ready simply commits to the 'main' branch
>     not wanting to keep it any longer.
> 
> 
> Deleting content from a repository is scary.  A bug in the delete logic could
> easily cause loss of information.
> 

I'm mostly an outsider (and very, very happy user of Fossil in its current
state), so take my coment with a pinch of salt, but:

Doesn't strike you as odd this sudden influx of requests of "make Fossil more
like Git!"? It's almost as if disgruntled users of Git want to have a Git-like
program, even importing their defects (or, let's be generous, "differences in
design philosophy"), but with a more friendly interface. "No matter if this
bothers or causes some worry or complication to current Fossil users or even
to its implementors: we want our Git-lite program so we can have all the
things we like and not have the Git manual tattooed to our inner eyelids!"

That's the generous hypothesis.

The paranoid one is that Git promoters really want to nullify all differences
between Git and Fossil and then say: "See? Fossil does the same that Git does!
And we have Github! And the community! And etcetera!".

I like Richard's attitude of "Fossil is there to scratch my own itches and
it's doing fine like it is now". I wouldn't like to have its CLI turned into a
unmanageable monstrosity (at the very least) or to compromise the integrity of
the Fossil file format because of people in love Fossil's simplicity but who
don't want to get rid of their old Git thinking habits.

-- 

   o-=< Marcelo >=-o

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