Regarding stable numbered tags. How about a script or added feature that
scans the timeline and tags every node in a systematic way similar to what
people might expect from Subversion or similar tools?
v1.1 -> v1.2 -> v1.3
\.-> v1.1.1
If the script worked incrementally and was run centrally or by only one
maintainer then the tags would be stable. Perhaps a clean up mode would
add/remove tags if there were collisions due to two parallel runs of the
script.
For very little overhead (I assume having lots of tags is a negligible
burden on fossil) those folks wanting an easy to use and sequential way to
identify nodes would be made mostly happy.
The more I think about it the more I like this. Even though I'm very happy
with the hex node keys I'd like to be able to think about commits in terms
of human friendly names that convey temporal relationship and I could live
with the risk of mutability of tags.
A mechanism to disallow pushing of same named tags would make this stronger
as those using fossil in a star topology would have the central fossil
disallow conflicting tags pushed from external. I mention this feature
knowing full well that this may not be possible/easy for the same reasons
that preventing branches from syncing is not easily doable.
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> such problems if they cannot be reproduced easily. i could see it being
>> halfway reliable for diffs, but not commits, because any change to the
>> filesystem or repo can change the list of files used by the commit command.
>>
>
> A silly but very realistic example:
>
> fossil status
> ... get my list of numbers...
>
> now my editor auto-saves some file i had opened but not yet saved.
>
> fossil ci 1-3
>
> oops.
>
>
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