Sorry, did not change the subject...
> Thank you very much for your reply and for developing fossil. > > rd > > On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 09:07:53 -0400, Richard Hipp wrote > >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have been using CVS and WinCVS for a while now, and stumbled upon fossil. >>> I find fossil very interesting, and usefull because it provides tickets, >>> events, and >>> a wiki with it, in a standalone single package. Outstanding in my opinion. >>> >>> I have a question regarding fossil and its usage. I was using CVS with >>> modules in the repository. I have many different directories in CVS for >>> example code, projects, notes, etc. Whatever you can think of. And had many >>> different levels of subdirectories. My CVS repository has many projects in >>> it. The CVSROOT is about 250 Meg and counting. >>> >> >> A year and half ago, when the 9-year history of SQLlite was imported from >> CVS into Fossil, the 320MB CVS repository was rendered into a 35MB Fossil >> repository. ?Fossil, it seems, does a much better job of compressing. ?(To >> be fair, most of the 320MB of CVS were contained in the CVSROOT/history >> file.) ?See http://www.fossil-scm.org/doc/trunk/www/stats.wiki for >> additional information. >> >>> >>> Given this picture, how could I do that in fossil effectively. Is it better >>> to provide different repositories for each project, or have all the CVS >>> repository directory structure reside in one repository file in fossil. If >>> that repository file (.fossil file) is a couple hundred megabytes (and it >>> will grow) would that have an impact in the performance, or usage of >>> fossil? >>> >> >> I would put each independent project in a separate repository. >> >>> >>> Another question would be... Is it possible to selectively check out >>> one directory and its subdirectories (a module) from the repository? >>> >> >> Fossil does not have the concept of a module or a partial tree check-out. >> You have to check out the entire tree or none at all. ?This is true of all >> DVCSes, as far as I am aware. >> >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any information. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> rd >>> _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
