This is good feedback and I think mentioning checkout/co in the top level help is important.
What I teach when doing fossil training is the following: 1. Use "fossil checkout" to move from branch to branch (I try to use "checkout" consistently in the training. "co" is nice but confusing) 2. If you have made changes and wish to commit them on a different branch use "fossil update" to move to that branch and then commit. 3. Using "fossil update" to move from branch to branch is probably fine but I suspect that "fossil checkout" is more rigorous and may be safer. A comment to those who find they seldom branch: I use branching and merging extensively as a tool to organize work and enable flights of fancy and exploration. Obviously it depends highly on the problems you are solving but I suspect that if you aren't branching then either you are working on a relatively linear and straightforward problem or you aren't using fossil to its fullest. On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Martin S. Weber <ephae...@gmx.net> wrote: > >> Actually, in my mind, when reading Michael's message, I kept thinking: >> uhm, >> you got it open, now update ;) >> > > Funnily enough - i've been using Fossil since December 2007 and only this > week learned that you can generically use 'update' to basically do a > checkout. i've been using 'co' for switching branches all these years. > > >> (not disputing the need for documentation; this is a report from >> experience >> of what went wrong and this should be fixed) > > > Agreed - i'll see to it tonight. > > -- > ----- stephan beal > http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ > http://gplus.to/sgbeal > "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of > those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > -- Matt -=- 90% of the nations wealth is held by 2% of the people. Bummer to be in the majority...
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