Because the internet can be a poor medium to express emotional intent, let me preface this with: Stephan, you know I have the utmost respect for your coding chops, and we _mostly_ fall in line wrt design philosophy. That said:
I'm shaking my head, wondering "why?" My current mental image is: http://perl-begin.org/humour/perl6_perl_6_cover_lg.jpg Is there an important, long-lived reason why we'd want this baked into fossil? Maybe this deserves to live as a tool that happens to be intimately familiar w/ fossil. Ie: a script that maps "bookmarks" with the real UUID, and runs 'exec ("fossil co $UUID");'. -bch On 6/4/14, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 6:53 PM, B Harder <brad.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Indeed, non-propagating tags are also "checkout-able" items. >> >> What am I missing about bookmarks that we can't already enjoy w/ tags, >> outside of new syntax ? >> > > i envision them as being "lightweight," i.e. local, non-versioned. They'd > just be local aliases, in effect, to arbitrary other symbolic names. > > -- > ----- 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
