Thank you everyone for your input and suggestions. This is a great community.
I will definitely post back on a new thread if DropBox causes any issues. Maybe I am the guinea pig... I will also, regardless of where my canonical repo resides, I will continue to work from local clones and sync back to the canonical repo. </thread> __ Thank you, David > -----Original Message----- > From: fossil-users-boun...@lists.fossil-scm.org [mailto:fossil-users- > boun...@lists.fossil-scm.org] On Behalf Of Stephan Beal > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2014 10:09 AM > To: Fossil SCM user's discussion > Subject: Re: [fossil-users] (New To Fossil): Repo Workflow / Should I Clone > Or Use Many Opens > > On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > > > Suppose your normally work on your desktop. Before changing to another > machine, simply run "fossil all changes" to make sure you have checked in > everything that you want to have checked in. Then if you are taking your > laptop off-network, go to the laptop and type "fossil sync all". That will > completely sync all your repos. After making changes on the laptop while > off-network, just type "fossil all sync" again and all your changes will go > back to the desktop. > > > > FWIW: i use to host some of my one-person repos on dropbox and never had any > problem with it (nor with files for other apps which edit them directly in > the dropbox folder). i've been using Dropbox since it came out, and haven't > ever had any locking/corruption-related problems. However, as Richard says, > it's another variable which might or might not be a problem. > > > Rather than putting the master repos on your desktop, you could lease a > Linux VM on the open internet for $10 or $20/month, and host all of your > repositories there > > > Mine (where fossil.wanderinghorse.net is) is about $5 with full ssh access > (or ftp for those who prefer it), php, etc. (hostmonster.com). > > > -- > > ----- stephan beal > http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ > http://gplus.to/sgbeal > "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of > those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
