On Mar 17, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Hugo Schmitt wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm assuming something wrong about how fossil works (WinXP) > > First I made a little repository, called 'test', and then deleted the > file. That repository contained, let's say files A,B and C. > I thought fossil had "forgotten" about this repository in the moment I > deleted the "test" file... is this assumption correct?
I think so. But to be "clean" you should probably either first close every check-out that is open against that repository, or else delete the _FOSSIL_ file at the root of every open check-out. > > > Continuing, I tried creating a fossil repository on all my config > files (going two folders up, btw). The repository name was the same > (test): > > c:/test (has a bunch of .el files) > fossil init There is no such thing as a "fossil init" command. Can you give us the exact sequence of commands you are using? > > fossil add * > fossil commit -m "Initial commit" > > then I tried to clone > cd c:/test2 > fossil clone ../test/test test > fossil open test > > Doing this, instead of seeing all my config files, it just recreated > A,B and C (from the first repo that I had deleted) > > After a couple tries, I tried to just copy the file instead: > > cd c:/test2 > copy ../test/test test > fossil open test > > which then recreates the correct files. > > Any idea on what can be happening here? How are both operations (clone > and copy) different on this case? > What's up with reusing names for repositories on different folders? > > TIA > Hugo > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users D. Richard Hipp [email protected] _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
