On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Andy Bradford <amb-fos...@bradfords.org> wrote:
> What version of Fossil are they using? Starting with Fossil version > 1.28, sync operations via SSH no longer connect once per round-trip, but > instead connect once per sync, as long as the server is also at least > version 1.28. > Aha - he might be on an older version. > > Cloning over SSH > > > > After creating a local repository, it would be nice to be able to > > clone it to a remote location via SSH. Mercurial and Git can do this, > > because source and destination may be local filenames or URLs. In > > Fossil, the destination has to be local. As a result it is necessary > > to copy the repository using scp (which is not always available on > > Windows) and later synchronise it with the local one. > > ...raises the question... What exactly will the remote-url be on this newly > created remote clone? Good question. Not sure that it would/could/should have one. > Or is this just intended to be a way to push out a > clone from a local machine to a remote machine but without relying on > scp? > That's my understanding. There was a thread about this a month or so back (initiated via the same user). More details here... > Also, I'm a little fuzzy on how Windows is relevant here. It isn't > possible to push a clone to a Windows machine using SSH because, well, > Windows doesn't normally have a SSH daemon. And if it does have a SSH > daemon, why doesn't it also have SCP? > Windows is relevant because one has to install extra tools to get SSH/SCP support on Windows. On all modern Unixes they are preinstalled. It is possible, but it's a pain in the butt if the machine doesn't already have such tools installed, and he's hoping for a built-in solution. Putty can be installed (i.e. copied into place) without admin rights, so it's not a huge hurdle, but Putty and WinSCP have both been unmaintained for many years now (last i checked, anyway), and (AFAIK) have no readily-available replacement. (Nonetheless, they are both used _heavily_ in corporate environments where sysadmins are forced to use Windows workstations (which includes all corporate environments i've worked in the past 15 years).) -- ----- 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
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