On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:28 PM, j. v. d. hoff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:23:09 +0100, Richard Hipp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Mike Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I don't do that (I keep all my fossil repositories in ~/repos), so >>> haven't paid close attention to the issues. The big one seems to be >>> accidentally trying to add the repository to itself. The resulting >>> checkin never terminates. I also recall problems with Windows >>> (something else I don't use) where the solution was to move the >>> repository out of the work space. >>> >>> Maybe the people who helped solve the problems can comment on this? Or >>> maybe my skimming of such problems has led me to a false conclusion. >>> >> >> I think all these problems are fixed and that it is safe to keep the repo >> in the check-out directory. > > > relieved to here that, thanks. are there any other valid arguments (beyond > matter of taste things like "I want to separate the repo from the checkout" > and facilitating backups by putting all repos in a single place) which make > it unwise to keep the repo within the checkout? >
I once deleted my repo along with the checked out files due to an inadvisable 'rm -r *'. It was a long time ago ok? :/ That's when I started keeping them separate, and I didn't discover the advantages of having multiple branches open until much later. > >> > > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
