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I absolutely love Fossil. I'm really glad to see it show up on HN. I've never heard of it eating data before.
by X86BSD 10y ago
I absolutely love Fossil. I'm really glad to see it show up on HN. I've never heard of it eating data before.
- hvidgaard 10y agoIt hasn't. There was a bug that would delete every file except the modified ones. If you panic there, you could end up deleting your modifications because you tell fossil to. It gained quite a bit of attention because Zed A. Shaw was bitten by it. Nevermind he didn't make a single commit for 3 days, or that he panicked, or that he didn't even make a simple "backup this folder so anything I do doesn't mess it up" as is standard with all other DVCS when something goes wrong. Fossil is fine in this regard, but a rebase function would be welcome.