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Comment by xixixao

4 years ago

I’ve had this idea for about 10 years - it really pays off to wait and eventually someone will build all my ideas :)

There are many things to build on top: - Squash history so that it doesn’t grow indefinitely. - Be somewhat language aware to provide better commit messages - IDE integration

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marcofatica  4 years ago

Fossil has had this feature for a long time

  • sgbeal  4 years ago

    > Fossil has had this feature for a long time

    (A long-time fossil contributor here.)

    Fossil has no such feature. Fossil sync synchronizes the remote and local saved state (checked-in/saved state only). It does not do anything with un-checked-in state.

    That said, you can use fossil's stash to periodically take a (non-sync'd) snapshot using something like 'fossil stash snapshot -m "snapshot @ $(date)"' (i have that aliased and use it often). That does not enter the SCM history and is lost if you destroy the checkout dir.

    • bch  4 years ago

      Goofy context here:

      ‘sgbeal and I were doing some fossil dev work ourselves (I’m personally not at his level of fossil-fu, but am a long-running user and contributor). Our work was in a fossil repo (he in Europe, me in North America) and we were using the chat[0] feature to discuss our work when we noticed and discussed the GP post. Fossil has been self-hosting for ages, now is it self-correcting? /s

      [0] https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/chat.md