Fossil SCM

Using the less jargony term "crawling" instead of "grovel" in the Fossil v Git article.

wyoung 2020-12-10 20:20 trunk
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With Git, one can easily locate the ancestors of a particular check-in
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by following the pointers embedded in the check-in object, but it is
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difficult to go the other direction and locate the descendants of a
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check-in. It is so difficult, in fact, that neither native Git nor
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-GitHub provide this capability short of
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-[http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/grovel.html|groveling] the
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+GitHub provide this capability short of crawling the
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[https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-log|commit log]. With Git, if you
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are looking at some historical check-in then you cannot ask "What came
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next?" or "What are the children of this check-in?"
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Fossil, on the other hand, parses essential information about check-ins
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--- www/fossil-v-git.wiki
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254 With Git, one can easily locate the ancestors of a particular check-in
255 by following the pointers embedded in the check-in object, but it is
256 difficult to go the other direction and locate the descendants of a
257 check-in. It is so difficult, in fact, that neither native Git nor
258 GitHub provide this capability short of
259 [http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/grovel.html|groveling] the
260 [https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-log|commit log]. With Git, if you
261 are looking at some historical check-in then you cannot ask "What came
262 next?" or "What are the children of this check-in?"
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264 Fossil, on the other hand, parses essential information about check-ins
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--- www/fossil-v-git.wiki
+++ www/fossil-v-git.wiki
@@ -253,12 +253,11 @@
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254 With Git, one can easily locate the ancestors of a particular check-in
255 by following the pointers embedded in the check-in object, but it is
256 difficult to go the other direction and locate the descendants of a
257 check-in. It is so difficult, in fact, that neither native Git nor
258 GitHub provide this capability short of crawling the
 
259 [https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-log|commit log]. With Git, if you
260 are looking at some historical check-in then you cannot ask "What came
261 next?" or "What are the children of this check-in?"
262
263 Fossil, on the other hand, parses essential information about check-ins
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