On Dec 19, 2012, at 19:56 , Mike Meyer wrote:

>> The big names have been created for huge teams, where people generally don't 
>> want to be overwhelmed by tentative work done by others. Therefore they work 
>> in isolation, issuing pull requests once the thing is done. Especially in 
>> Git it's popular to compress all the commits to be pulled into one big 
>> commit. But the important thing is the isolation.
> 
> This is a description of workflows, not SCM properties. 

Of course. But bear in mind that the tools are optimized for certain cases that 
creators had in mind.
Fossil was created for a team of (IIRC) three employees of a single company. 
Git was created for a fuzzy community of some few thousands people.

>> It stands in stark contrast to Fossil's "everybody has a copy of everything".
> 
> Except for private branches. There's been some discussion about adding
> more control over push/pull to fossil, but I don't believe it's
> happened yet.

Private branches are a pretty recent addition. I believe that the fine grained 
pushing/pulling will also come sooner or later, once one of folks involved with 
Fossil feels a need for it.


Kind regards,
Remigiusz Modrzejewski



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