Hello, I've been using fossil for a few repos, and I really like the system. I'm about to move my final repo to it, but it's quite a big project and will require a bit of work to fit in with fossil. In particular, it assumes the SCM supports empty directories and symlinks. Also, in my current use, I've found the ignore-glob setting a bit cumbersome as it's not versioned.
Since these issues have come up in the past, I thought I might have a go at adding support for them in fossil instead of modifying my code to cope. I'm not 100% sure this is best strategy, as there's a lot to be said for only requiring the lowest common denominator in an SCM. As a first step, I've made an experimental patch to see what the reaction is, and whether the approach is worth tidying up: http://pastebin.com/tbKGu3s6 This adds (badly): * "Versionable" settings The ignore-glob, binary-glob, crnl-glob and manifest settings can be version controlled. Add a directory .fossil-settings to your project, and within that, create a file named after that setting, eg '.fossil-settings/ignore-glob'. If this file exists, it'll be used in preference to the setting in the database. Glob parsing has been changed to allow multi-line settings, so you can do one glob per line as well as one line full of comma separated globs. * empty-dirs setting Each line of this setting specifies a directory name. When you checkout or update, those directories are created. Since the UI doesn't allow multi-line settings, you'll have to use a versionable setting for now as '.fossil-settings/empty-dirs'. I had a quick look at supporting symlinks, but wasn't entirely sure the best approach or where to start in the code. I wondered about having artefacts which contained the target of the symlinks, and were flagged somehow so they were written as symlinks instead of regular files. Any thoughts? I realise these changes may go against fossil's philosophy and not be suitable for inclusion. It was fun poking around the code. Ben -- http://bens.me.uk/ _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
