Fossil SCM
Help of branch new does not mention option --nosign
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· opened 17 years, 8 months ago
- Type
- Documentation
- Priority
- Immediate
- Severity
- Important
- Resolution
- Not_A_Bug
- Subsystem
- one
- Created
- July 25, 2008 4:17 a.m.
If I perform a
fossil help branch
Fossil do not mention, that I can pass the option --nosign. During creation of the branch, I was asked to pass my private key's passphrase to sign the creation. I did not want to do this and therefore interrupted the branch creation process. I tried the same command line and added a --nosign somewhere. This time the creation succeed without asking me for my passphrase.
So I conclude that the description of the applicability of said option is lacking.
But another three question: why to I have to sign the creation of a branch and not the creation of a tag? And what is the difference between
fossil branch new test
and
fossil tag add branch sym-test
And last but not least, what is the idea for a tag? I do not seem to be able to fossil update to a tag-marked version.
drh added on 2008-07-25 11:54:48:
See comment on ticket [bd33a464ae]: The "branch" command seems to be an
abandoned subproject of a developer who has not contributed to fossil
lately. I do not know what its purpose is. I am of a mind to delete
the command all together. Please take discussion to the mailing list.