On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov <
flatw...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> mainstream VCSes.  But I digress.  If memory serves me right, initially
> Fossil only supported creation of a branch when committing, and
> "explicit" branch creation has been added afterwards, per user requests.
>

IIRC it was the other way around. i might be wrong, though. i only recently
used --branch for the first time, and i've been using fossil a good while,
which leads me to suspect that i must have been using the
branch/checkout/edit approach. --branch has been there a long time, but i
am prone to committing to the wrong branch in that workflow, so i almost
never use it.


> new line of by *first* creating a branch to work on.  People with
> a different mindset are fine with first coding something and then
> deciding where this should go.  There definitely was at least one
> thread on this list which discussed this matter, with Richard Hipp
> chiming in and explaining he has the mindert of the latter kind ;-)
>

That's how i remember it.

Poking around a little in the repo i just randomly selected a really old
version of checkin.c which does not contain the --branch option to the ci
command:

http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/artifact/4a866358e30844ec8501e980dbe2d87f02c34406

But here's from from 2009 which does have it, so it's been around a while:

http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/artifact/43b7742fd68d09627b40cf44bbeb83ab9fc6c384


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