Fossil SCM
What is the meaning of ?VALUE? in tag add and tag branch?
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· opened 17 years, 8 months ago
- Type
- Documentation
- Priority
- Immediate
- Severity
- Minor
- Resolution
- Not_A_Bug
- Subsystem
- one
- Created
- July 25, 2008 4:24 a.m.
If I perform a
fossil help tag
there is a ?VALUE? mentioned at the description of tag add and tag branch. But what is the purpose of ?VALUE?? It seem to be a free format value. Its only purpose seem to be that I may query it via tag list UUID, is this correct?
drh added on 2008-07-25 11:59:40:
This is a legitimate question, but a question for the mailing list, I think,
not for a ticket. If there were a misstatement of fact issued by
the "help" command, that would justify a ticket. But the "help" command
is not intended to provide a tutorial. The "help" command is not intended
to explain things down to the last detail. The "help" command should only
give a high-level summary of what a command does.
One could easily argument that there needs to be additional documentation of the "tag" command. I agree. But the additional documentation belongs on the website - separate from the primary fossil executable, I believe.
Please continue follow-up discussion on the mailing list.