On Jul 24, 2013, at 16:21 , Steve Landers wrote: > > On 24/07/2013, at 7:28 AM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> AFAIK git offers a mechanism for changing history, but Fossil doesn't like >> for history to change. > > It isn't changing history, it is setting a subproject free to live it's own > life. That's not an unusual situation, given that projects often grow and > then divide. > > So I detach a local repository, rename it, and continue with a new repository > for the subproject. But it contains all of the history for the parent > project, as does the parent project repository. I can push that to a branch > and close it in the detached repo, no big deal. But it isn't ideal, > especially if the original repo is large. > > Being able to detach based on a specific commit or branch would be nice (not > essential, but nice).
As well as being able to detach a particular directory in the checkout structure... Kind regards, Remigiusz Modrzejewski _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
