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Re:Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) by wyoung2 on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @12:59PM (#21982587)
> Hey, are you a fossil dev?

I have commit access, yes, but mainly I work on the docs.

> Does fossil now have any kind of email support built in to the ticket manager?

Yes. It was added in support of the forum feature last year, but it also applies to several other event types: https://fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/alerts.md

> one of the devs said to just write a script to monitor the fossil rss feed

Probably me. :)

> seemed like a baroque and fragile (and time-consuming) solution.

A dozen lines of Perl; easy-peasy. That and a pile of CPAN modules, but that's easily fetched with `cpanm`.

> the mv/rm behavior -- affecting the file on disk as well as the repository

The default you're referring to was changed a few years ago: the old `--hard` option is now the default.

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