Apologies in advance if this makes no sense. I've only done a tiny bit with git and that was some time ago.
What if you have a single directory that both version control systems use? You pull from git, commit to Fossil, do your changes and commit to Fossil, and then push your changes to git. When you do the new pull from git, you just update Fossil and start the cycle again. -- Michael L. Barrow On Nov 4, 2011, at 10:54, Nolan Darilek <no...@thewordnerd.info> wrote: > Thanks, but that's not really what I asked. > > I totally get Fossil's development model, have used it for over a year and > think that it'd be a great fit for this particular community. I also read > this message when it was originally posted. But I may be working with people > who would rather submit a quick change via Github rather than download and > install a new piece of software. Yes, I get that it's easy, I'm just thinking > that it might be a barrier here. So let me make the question more explicit: > > 1. Can I export my project to a Git repository, push that to Github, make a > few commits, export the changes to Git and push the repository again? If so, > will it look identical to the repository after the first step with a few > extra commits such that someone who pulls doesn't get told that the > repository after the changes is different? > > 2. If my canonical Fossil repository advances and someone makes changes on > Github, can I do an incremental import of the Git repository and only get > their changes without creating an entirely new Fossil repository? > > 3. Has anyone else done this, and how does it work? I'd really rather use > Fossil, but am worried about losing contributors who don't want to learn a > new and simpler system. Since we're developing applications to meet immediate > needs (software for the various occupations), the response I may get from > people might be to use the tools that everyone knows to maximize the > community's ability/willingness to chip in. If that response comes, hopefully > I can say that Fossil interacts with Git in the manner I've described here > and can meet the need. > > Thanks. > > > On 11/04/2011 12:06 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: >> >> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Nolan Darilek <no...@thewordnerd.info> wrote: >> some pushback from Git users. Is it possible to use Fossil in a workflow >> with people who would rather use Git/Github? >> >> Richard wrote a nice summary of that on Oct 16th which i'll paste in here: >> >> --------------- >> Fossil does not currently support a hierarchical development model very >> well. It wants everybody to be a peer. It wants all developers to see >> everything all the time. Fossil strives to avoid a "peeking order" in which >> some developers are hidden from view behind "lieutenants". This is a more >> egalitarian model, but also one that does not scale as well. >> >> To better support a hierarchy, Fossil would need the ability to sync >> individual branches in addition to its current behavior of always syncing >> everything on every sync request. (Recall that I asked for volunteers to >> implement such a thing a while back.) But adding that feature quickly gets >> complicated when you then try to figure out how to deal with auto-sync. You >> could, I suppose, put your local Fossil into a mode where it only syncs the >> branch you are currently working on or switching to. But what about Wiki >> and Tickets and Events? Do they get synced or not? Once you leave the >> comfort of Fossils original model of "everybody sees all the code all the >> time" then various operational questions of this kind start to come up. >> --------------- >> >> -- >> ----- stephan beal >> http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fossil-users mailing list >> fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org >> http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
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