2012/2/20 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <[email protected]>

> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 07:54:21AM -0500, Leo Razoumov wrote:
> > Hi List,
> > I have a repo with three brunches: trunk, BR1.prv and BR2.
> > trunk and BR2 were created public while BR1.prv was created private.
> > After some commits in all the branches I tag branching point of public
> > BR2 with a propagating "private" tag:
> >
> > $ fossil tag add --propagate --raw private  checkinID
> >
> > After that all checkins in BR2 show up as "private inherited from
> > ...". It made me think that I effectively changed public BR2 into a
> > private branch.
> >
> > But fossil thinks differently:-) When I clone the repo BR2 checkins
> > are transferred to the clone. Apparently, BR1.prv is a true private
> > branch (it was created private from get go and is ignored by clone)
> > while BR2 is a "fake" private branch. Does it mean that propagating
> > "private" tag is ignored by clone operation?
> >
> > Is it possible to convert public branch into private (at least
> > temporarily) for the sake of cloning??
>
> Hello,
>
> Apart from the problems you mention, I think there may be some troubles
> related
> to delta manifests; some weeks ago Richard made a commit related to
> troubles
> between private branches and deltas, iirc.
>

Right.  Be sure to use the latest version of Fossil (not the latest
*released* version, but rather one that you build yourself from the tip of
trunk).  Then if you run "fossil rebuild", I think it might begin to honor
your manually-added "private" tag.  Maybe.  Try it and let us know.


>
> I've not tried to use private branches, among other reasons, because I
> feel they
> are quite underspecified meanwhile. Merging a private branch into a public
> branch, what does it result to, for example? What document describes the
> specific behaviour around private branches?
>
> Regards,
> Lluís.
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