hg SCM, history rewriting (Re: to git or not to git)

2018-09-07 Thread Bernhard E. Reiter
Am Donnerstag 06 September 2018 22:40:49 schrieb Timothy Pearson: > > I think you could do something similar to git with Mercurial but it > > wouldn't be exactly the same. > As long as the general class of functionality is present, that's fine. https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/HisteditExtension

Prototpye Fund - Public Money for public code

2018-09-07 Thread Matthias Kirschner
Hello everybody, IIRC there was no information yet on the list about the Prototype Fund. Today I saw that parts of their website are also available in English now. I would like to know what you think about the programme and if you know of similar programmes from other countries in Europe. Rela

Re: to git or not to git

2018-09-07 Thread evaggelos balaskas
Without derailing too much this wonderful discussion, I would like to make a comment on lost commits/code. IMHO git is not a backup solution, its a version control system. sometimes we forgot this simple but important tiny thing so freq commits (even on a local cloned repo or branch) is really

Re: Silent majority (was: supporting our fellowship representative)

2018-09-07 Thread Stefan Uygur
+1 On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 5:36 PM wrote: > > > I didn't start this thread to "win", I started this thread to say I will > quit if things don't change. That is my right. Lot's of groups doing > great things who deserve my money. > > After watching the replies, now my decision is clear. > > > --

Re: to git or not to git

2018-09-07 Thread Timothy Pearson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09/07/2018 08:41 AM, evaggelos balaskas wrote: > Without derailing too much this wonderful discussion, I would like to make a > comment on lost commits/code. > > IMHO git is not a backup solution, its a version control system. sometimes we > f

Re: temporary moderation of this list

2018-09-07 Thread Stefan Uygur
Florian, With all due respect, you can moderate or do whatever you'd like, nobody is going to stop you. However, remember the purpose for which FSFE was founded. It is my personal opinion and based on knowledge/experience of free software community, the way things are right now, the FSFE staff do