On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Warren Young <w...@etr-usa.com> wrote:

> On Feb 18, 2016, at 7:20 PM, Scott Robison <sc...@casaderobison.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > As it turns out, this wasn't a great plan.
>
> I agree.  I even dislike checking configure scripts generated by autoconf
> and similar into repos.
>
> (Please, hold the replies.  I already know the justifications.  I just
> don’t agree.)
>
> > Since I'm using Windows, I was inclined to just use a batch file
>
> *wince*
>
> I wonder if it would be cleaner in Stephan Beal’s f-s2sh language?
>

It would have been cleaner in just about anything. But there was a
principle involved, namely bending Windows to my will.

Note: I have cygwin installed on my machine, so it's not like I couldn't
have used another more posixy tool. But this worked adequately for me.


> > fossil update next
>
> That’s worth reading this post all by itself.  I knew about most of the
> other special tags, but not that one.  Thanks!
>
> I assume “next” ignores branches, so that rewriting the repo by stepping
> through it with “next” in a loop will prune all the branches?
>

I would assume so, but don't know as I had no branches in this repo and no
repo with branches from which I wanted to excise any history.

This was a pretty special case. :)
-- 
Scott Robison
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