Mac@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev · 10 months agoFossil: A Git alternative with batteries includedfossil-scm.orgexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down15
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minus-squareHiddenTower@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·10 months agoI checked out fossil once and looks like it doesn’t have an equivalent to Pull Request so I moved on. It wasn’t clear how anyone could begin to be a contributor to a project if I host on fossil.
minus-squaredukk@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·10 months agoI mean, Git doesn’t natively have pull requests either…the “official” method involves sending patches through email. It seems that Fossil has a similar setup (although without the tool).. PRs are a feature introduced by GitHub. I guess Fossil bundles would be close enough to them.
minus-squareonlinepersona@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoPatches have terrible UX. IMO, if projects don’t support the equivalent of pull or merge requests, they are just turning away contributors.
I checked out fossil once and looks like it doesn’t have an equivalent to Pull Request so I moved on. It wasn’t clear how anyone could begin to be a contributor to a project if I host on fossil.
I mean, Git doesn’t natively have pull requests either…the “official” method involves sending patches through email. It seems that Fossil has a similar setup (although without the tool)..
PRs are a feature introduced by GitHub. I guess Fossil bundles would be close enough to them.
Patches have terrible UX. IMO, if projects don’t support the equivalent of pull or merge requests, they are just turning away contributors.