Re: [TCLCORE] GPL Licence in TCLLib added

[Poor Y. <org...@po...>]

On 2024-11-04 12:33, Dipl. Ing. Sergey G. Brester via Tcl-Core wrote:
> I guess, because fossil isn't really distributed SCM - I don't know any
> way to have 2 or more
> remotes (like git does), so his changes could not be pushed to 
> different
> repo (by retaining pull from core).
>  This is one the largest advantages of git, imho.
> And private branches in fossil are really private - they would not be
> synchronized at all
> and remain completely local.
> 
> I don't know why Nathan cannot switch to git (using fossil mirror for
> pull and then push his branches
> to some git-remote, like I do), but probably some historical thing.
> 
> As for the behaviour that shouldn't be allowed...
> Hmm... I can only criticize the strange method, he uses to hold the
> branches synchronized with tcl-core -
> for some reason instead of simple periodic merge, every commit will be
> repeated (cherry-picked).
> The bottom line this causes a lot of data in the repository and
> duplicates the number of commits.
> 

It's not a lot more data.  A single commit of a regenerated file like
"configure" adds more data than lots and lots of "normal" commits.  I 
was
considering switching to git but didn't, mostly due to inertia.

-- 
Yorick