Re: [fossil-users] simple Fossil For New Users intro guide

2013-08-09 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 10:48:36PM +0200, j. van den hoff wrote: 1. the Unlike most popular DVCSes... is a bit misleading. all of them have a database for each checkout, of course, but not in a single file. backing them up is not really that much more complicated. I would try to

Re: [fossil-users] simple Fossil For New Users intro guide

2013-08-09 Thread Michai Ramakers
On 8 August 2013 22:25, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote: This Fossil For New Users intro to doing the basics in Fossil was a few minutes' work, in part as a reminder for myself. I thought it might be useful for others as well, though, so I finally decided to put it online.

Re: [fossil-users] simple Fossil For New Users intro guide

2013-08-09 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 12:15:57PM +0200, Michai Ramakers wrote: On 8 August 2013 22:25, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote: This Fossil For New Users intro to doing the basics in Fossil was a few minutes' work, in part as a reminder for myself. I thought it might be useful for others as

Re: [fossil-users] simple Fossil For New Users intro guide

2013-08-09 Thread Stephan Beal
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: Fossil and Monotone uses a relational database whereas Git uses an ad-hoc pile-of-files database. snip Reminder to self or other dev: that whole answer belongs verbatim in one of the wiki/doc pages, IMO, if it's not there

Re: [fossil-users] simple Fossil For New Users intro guide

2013-08-09 Thread David Mason
The more newbie help the better... I - for one - certainly appreciate it. On the fossil files in or out of the project directory, I suspect most of the cases Stephen and others have had with mangling/deleting fossil db files could be obviated (on Linux and Mac OS X) by calling the fossil file

Re: [fossil-users] simple Fossil For New Users intro guide

2013-08-09 Thread Stephan Beal
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 6:17 PM, David Mason dma...@ryerson.ca wrote: On the fossil files in or out of the project directory, I suspect most of the cases Stephen and others have had with mangling/deleting fossil db files could be obviated (on Linux and Mac OS X) by calling the fossil file

Re: [fossil-users] simple Fossil For New Users intro guide

2013-08-09 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 12:17:00PM -0400, David Mason wrote: The more newbie help the better... I - for one - certainly appreciate it. I wrote a set of notes years ago covering the issues described in this guide, as reminders for myself. I kept meaning to flesh it out a bit and post it online,

[fossil-users] simple Fossil For New Users intro guide

2013-08-08 Thread Chad Perrin
This Fossil For New Users intro to doing the basics in Fossil was a few minutes' work, in part as a reminder for myself. I thought it might be useful for others as well, though, so I finally decided to put it online. http://blogstrapping.com/?page=2013.220.13.42.53 Let me know what you

Re: [fossil-users] simple Fossil For New Users intro guide

2013-08-08 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 22:25:33 +0200, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote: This Fossil For New Users intro to doing the basics in Fossil was a few minutes' work, in part as a reminder for myself. I thought it might be useful for others as well, though, so I finally decided to put it online.

Re: [fossil-users] simple Fossil For New Users intro guide

2013-08-08 Thread Stephan Beal
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:48 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: 2. I'm not comfortable with categorically recommending to new users to separate the database from the checkout. I know that many on this list think this to be a good thing but in general In fossil keeping them

Re: [fossil-users] simple Fossil For New Users intro guide

2013-08-08 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 23:12:52 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:48 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: 2. I'm not comfortable with categorically recommending to new users to separate the database from the checkout. I know that many on

[fossil-users] simple Fossil For New Users intro guide

2013-08-08 Thread Themba Fletcher
i _strongly_ recommend against keeping the repo db in the same dir as a checkout. Very little can go wrong when they're separated and lots can go wrong when they're not. Wholeheartedly concur. In just over two years of daily usage I've lost data exactly once and that was due to having my repo

Re: [fossil-users] simple Fossil For New Users intro guide

2013-08-08 Thread Stephan Beal
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:31 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: but what does this proof? the next guy might be a tidy up fanatic and accidentally remove the directory with all the repository files, right? My point is only that that type of goof-up happens much more often if

Re: [fossil-users] simple Fossil For New Users intro guide

2013-08-08 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 23:36:14 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:31 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: but what does this proof? the next guy might be a tidy up fanatic and accidentally remove the directory with all the repository