Hiho, This "just crossed my desk[top]" and i thought one or two of you might find it to be an interesting idea.
@Richard: this is from the Holger we talked to at the TCL conference last summer. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stephan Beal <step...@wanderinghorse.net> Date: Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:26 AM Subject: Re: Another question about Fossil To: Holger Jakobs <snipped-by-stephan> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:54 PM, Holger Jakobs wrote: > Hi Stephan, > > Can you answer another question about Fossil? > Of course! > A friend of mine wants to use it on Windows. On Linux I always create a > new repository, then scp it to my server and then sync it with the local > one. On Windows scp always needs installation of PuTTY and so on - a hassle. > > Is there way of cloning the local repository to a remote server using ssh? > When syncing works, why shouldn't cloning as well? > i don't use Windows and have never used the SSH support with Fossil, but from what i understand... no, there's no way to perform a clone anywhere except locally. Interesting question - AFAIK it's never come up before. > hg doesn't make any difference whether source or destination are local or > remote, same with scp. But the Fossil documentation says that the first > parameter can be a URL (also local with file://), but the destination > always has to be a local file. > That's my understanding of it. i will forward my response to this mail to the fossil list (with your address scrubbed), as that idea might interest the guys who do the SSH bits. > That would be very sad, if there was no way with Fossil itself to clone a > local repo to a remote machine. > i don't remember it ever being brought up before. It "might" (i don't know) be feasible to implement. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal
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