[Nix-dev] Re: An interview to the fossil creator about fossil

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 03:49:13PM +0400, Michael Raskin wrote:
> Although Fossil comes with bug-tracking and wiki, when I sent the link it
> was not what I had in mind as relevant in the talk.
> 
> Some of the points I like of Fossil, then:
> - It does not allow the kind of git history rewriting. Thus, I favour the
> use of
>   more branches with full history keeping instead of "rebase -i; push".
You can use pull (merge, not rebase); push instead.
> 
> What I don't like much:
> - Some operations can be done only through the web ui, which is both
> thought as
>   a normal UI for local usage, and as a public web server. Then, tickets
>   can only be managed through the web ui. "fossil ui" starts the server
>   and tells firefox to open that page, in that single command. I'd like a
>   full featured command line.
+1
> - I still have to see migration scripts other than CVS to Fossil.
+1
> 
> Urkud talked about the linking between different projects, but I don't
> know what was he thinking about. Urkud, can you explain what you had in
> mind? Do you mean the git ability to pull from a repository *only* commits
> for a single branch, instead of pulling all?
It was Evgeny (Phreedom) who was talking about linking between different 
projects. I think that he is talking about 
> 
> Related to 'git', I've found this days how difficult it is to cross-build
> perl, and I feel it difficult for me to accept more things perl-based,
> having other not-worse solutions around. :)
You need perl only for git-svn and a few other scripts. All the main 
commands are in C or bash.
> 
> Regards,
> Lluís.