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Re:Dura is a background process that watches your Git reposi... by marcofatica on Monday January 03, 2022 @01:57PM (#29784719)
Fossil has had this feature for a long time
Re:Dura is a background process that watches your Git reposi... by sgbeal on Monday January 03, 2022 @04:26PM (#29787158)
> Fossil has had this feature for a long time

(A long-time fossil contributor here.)

Fossil has no such feature. Fossil sync synchronizes the remote and local saved state (checked-in/saved state only). It does not do anything with un-checked-in state.

That said, you can use fossil's stash to periodically take a (non-sync'd) snapshot using something like 'fossil stash snapshot -m "snapshot @ $(date)"' (i have that aliased and use it often). That does not enter the SCM history and is lost if you destroy the checkout dir.

Re:Dura is a background process that watches your Git reposi... by bch on Monday January 03, 2022 @04:45PM (#29787385)
Goofy context here:

‘sgbeal and I were doing some fossil dev work ourselves (I’m personally not at his level of fossil-fu, but am a long-running user and contributor). Our work was in a fossil repo (he in Europe, me in North America) and we were using the chat[0] feature to discuss our work when we noticed and discussed the GP post. Fossil has been self-hosting for ages, now is it self-correcting? /s

[0] https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/chat.md

Re:Dura is a background process that watches your Git reposi... by dradtke on Monday January 03, 2022 @02:20PM (#29785063)
I'm curious about this, any links handy?
Re:Dura is a background process that watches your Git reposi... by klaussilveira on Monday January 03, 2022 @03:57PM (#29786758)