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. > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > -- D. Richard Hipp [email protected]
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