Re: [fossil-users] [Suggestion] Branch descriptions

2015-01-06 Thread Stephan Beal
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: +1 IMHO this is a good idea. How technically feasible it is I have no idea. agreed. AFAIK, branches currently do not use the VALUE part of the tag. Perhaps such a description could be set there when making a branch, e.g.:

Re: [fossil-users] [Suggestion] Branch descriptions

2015-01-06 Thread Ron W
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:04 AM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: agreed. AFAIK, branches currently do not use the VALUE part of the tag. Perhaps such a description could be set there when making a branch, e.g.: fossil commit -b new-branch -d branch description -m commit message

Re: [fossil-users] [Suggestion] Branch descriptions

2015-01-06 Thread Richard Hipp
On 1/6/15, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:04 AM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: agreed. AFAIK, branches currently do not use the VALUE part of the tag. Perhaps such a description could be set there when making a branch, e.g.: fossil commit -b

Re: [fossil-users] [Suggestion] Branch descriptions

2015-01-06 Thread Ron W
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote: The sym- one not having a value. Strange to me that 2 tags would be used (I would have thought only the branch tag), but looks like the sym- tag could

Re: [fossil-users] [Suggestion] Branch descriptions

2015-01-06 Thread Stephan Beal
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote: The sym- one not having a value. Strange to me that 2 tags would be used (I would have thought only the branch tag), but looks like the sym- tag could be used to hold a branch description. One downside: this precludes modifying

Re: [fossil-users] [Suggestion] Branch descriptions

2015-01-05 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 4, 2015, at 10:55 AM, Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com wrote: I don't know what a lot of the branches are and I have no obvious way of finding out. If it’s a temporary branch, e.g. to develop a risky feature before it gets into good enough shape that it can be committed to the

Re: [fossil-users] [Suggestion] Branch descriptions

2015-01-05 Thread Matt Welland
+1 IMHO this is a good idea. How technically feasible it is I have no idea. On Jan 4, 2015 10:59 AM, Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com wrote: Hi all, I have a quick suggestion to present. While browsing the SqLite timeline, it struck me that I don't know what a lot of the branches are and

[fossil-users] [Suggestion] Branch descriptions

2015-01-04 Thread Philip Bennefall
Hi all, I have a quick suggestion to present. While browsing the SqLite timeline, it struck me that I don't know what a lot of the branches are and I have no obvious way of finding out. I was thinking that it might be nice to be able to specify an optional description for a given branch. The