Re: [fossil-users] purge/shun single branch(es)

2014-07-15 Thread Gour
Andy Bradford amb-fos...@bradfords.org writes: Fossil is also very light when it comes to cloning. What about clone, make a private branch in your clone (to avoid accidental syncing), do your experimental work and when done, either merge into trunk (or wherever) or displose of

Re: [fossil-users] purge/shun single branch(es)

2014-07-15 Thread Stephan Beal
Very briefly from the phone: about 6 months ago i looked into the simplest such action i could think of - erasing the top-most checkin (from there one could keep erasing one step back at a time). It turns out that undoing the deltification, crosslinking and similar work performed by any routines

Re: [fossil-users] purge/shun single branch(es)

2014-07-15 Thread Gour
Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com writes: Very briefly from the phone: about 6 months ago i looked into the simplest such action i could think of - erasing the top-most checkin (from there one could keep erasing one step back at a time). It turns out that undoing the deltification,

Re: [fossil-users] purge/shun single branch(es)

2014-07-15 Thread Ron W
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Gour g...@atmarama.net wrote: Afaik, there was some talk inthe past about having some kind of hg-like bundle which could be sent via email applied... At least from the web UI, Fossil can create patch files from commits. As best I can determine from a

Re: [fossil-users] purge/shun single branch(es)

2014-07-15 Thread Ron W
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: Very briefly from the phone: about 6 months ago i looked into the simplest such action i could think of - erasing the top-most checkin (from there one could keep erasing one step back at a time). It turns out that

Re: [fossil-users] purge/shun single branch(es)

2014-07-15 Thread Stephan Beal
The problem is mainly, iirc, the deltification. Arbitrary blobs may become deltas of arbitrary others (conceptually unrelated), and undoing that is painful. - stephan Sent from a mobile device, possibly from bed. Please excuse brevity and typos. On Jul 15, 2014 7:58 PM, Ron W

Re: [fossil-users] purge/shun single branch(es)

2014-07-15 Thread Stephan Beal
See below... (sorry, no workstation until Internet gets connected) - stephan Sent from a mobile device, possibly from bed. Please excuse brevity and typos. On Jul 15, 2014 9:56 PM, Andreas Kupries andre...@activestate.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Stephan Beal

[fossil-users] purge/shun single branch(es)

2014-07-14 Thread Gour
Hello, the topic was already discussed several times in this mailing list, but I wonder what is the obstacle for Fossil to provide ability to shun/forge single branch(es), iow. whether it because it is, somehow, against Fossil's design or there are some implementation-wise reasons? I've started

Re: [fossil-users] purge/shun single branch(es)

2014-07-14 Thread Stephan Beal
0.02$ never really understood why people feel they need private branches. A little public humility once in a while helps make us better developers ☺ - stephan Sent from a mobile device, possibly from bed. Please excuse brevity and typos. On Jul 14, 2014 6:40 PM, Gour g...@atmarama.net wrote:

Re: [fossil-users] purge/shun single branch(es)

2014-07-14 Thread Gour
Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com writes: 0.02$ never really understood why people feel they need private branches. A little public humility once in a while helps make us better developers First of all some code is simply too explorative by nature when one experiments with some new things

Re: [fossil-users] purge/shun single branch(es)

2014-07-14 Thread Matt Welland
The desire for this ability, to sync or purge specific branches, has many possible motives - only one of which is hiding something :) Having the ability to push, remove and create private branches on a individual basis would make it much easier to use fossil for a gatekeeper based build system.