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> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Hipp
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2014 9:15 AM
> To: Fossil SCM user's discussion
> Subject: Re: [fossil-users] (New To Fossil): Repo Workflow / Should I
> Clone Or Use Many Opens
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> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 9:02 AM, David Botham <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>
> All,
>
> I am in the process of moving from git to fossil.
>
> My question is about how many repositories to use for a particular
> project.
>
> A summary of my use case:
>
> - Single developer, but, may from time to time (once a year) have
> someone else I work with want to contribute. And those contribs are
> usually small.
> - I alter the code for my projects on different computers
> (workstation at the office, laptop on the road, etc...).
> - I use DropBox as a data store.
> - Mostly I develop on Windows, but, target Windows and Linux (and
> now and then OSX).
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>
>
> I don't know how closely a DropBox folder follows correct (published)
> filesystem semantics. If DropBox is doing some no-standard things, then
> it might be possible to corrupt the repository if it lives in a DropBox
> folder. I just don't know.
I have been using DropBox for a long time, and don't have any issues / concerns
from a reliability perspective.
>
>
> I'd be inclined to keep the master repos in an ordinary folder on your
> desktop. Run a Fossil server on that desktop that grants access to your
> laptop and/or other systems. In other words, the laptop clones from the
> desktop. If you run "fossil remote" on the laptop it will show the URL
> of the desktop Fossil server.
>
>
> Suppose your normally work on your desktop. Before changing to another
> machine, simply run "fossil all changes" to make sure you have checked
> in everything that you want to have checked in. Then if you are taking
> your laptop off-network, go to the laptop and type "fossil sync all".
> That will completely sync all your repos. After making changes on the
> laptop while off-network, just type "fossil all sync" again and all your
> changes will go back to the desktop.
>
>
> The above is how Fossil is *designed* to work. Can you get it to also
> work using your DropBox approach? Maybe. It will require some
It works great, just like a local file, but, automatically synced to all my
other systems.
Here is a transcript of a commit on my desktop. Notice that the commit is
automatically sync'd to both my local clone and up to the primary repo from
which the clone was taken.
______________________
C:\dev-projects\my-project>fossil status
repository: \fossil-repo-clones\my-project.fossil
local-root: C:/dev-projects/my-project/
config-db: C:/Users/joeuser/AppData/Local/_fossil
checkout: 4af5687de58dac6e94157395a55a1df2a9dd9a7d 2014-07-31 19:55:23 UTC
parent: 40fdf5a098abfc946f12e8287bdd961a705a5e34 2014-07-31 16:02:58 UTC
leaf: open
tags: trunk
comment: [8787849eb4] Updated crud_object() to log object identification
details for all log level entries. (user: joeuser)
EDITED my-project.conf
C:\dev-projects\my-project>fossil commit -m "Monir cosmetic updates to conf
file."
Autosync: file://N:/Dropbox/fossil-central-repos/my-project.fossil
Round-trips: 1 Artifacts sent: 0 received: 0
Pull finished with 268 bytes sent, 931 bytes received
./my-project.conf contains invalid UTF-8. Use --no-warnings or the
"encoding-glob" setting to disable this warning.
Commit anyhow (a=all/y/N)? a
New_Version: 53aaeeb16d3ad1766a6923ae8963c7d7316530c9
Autosync: file://N:/Dropbox/fossil-central-repos/my-project.fossil
Round-trips: 1 Artifacts sent: 2 received: 0
Sync finished with 1232 bytes sent, 980 bytes received
________________________
>From my laptop, the transaction would be pretty much the same.
So, regardless of where the central repo is located, does it make sense to
clone it to my workstation / laptop / ect, and then open that, or simply open
the central repo into my local working directory?
> experimentation, I suppose, to determine whether or not DropBox is
> pulling any dirty tricks that get the underlying SQLite storage engine
> confused. Perhaps others on this list can give a better answer.
I have never had any issues with it, so, I think I am going to trust it.
Although, if I ever do have issues, I will have to look at another central
location for the repo. Although, to clone or not to clone is still the
question.
>
>
> Rather than putting the master repos on your desktop, you could lease a
> Linux VM on the open internet for $10 or $20/month, and host all of your
> repositories there. Then you'd also have a machine on which to put
> shared files and a website and an FTP server and you would have a remote
> backup of all of your work.
Thanks for the tip. I will look into that...
>
>
>
>
>
> After reading the docs and Jim's book, I setup like this:
> + Main repo on DropBox:
> c:\> cd DropBox\fossil-repos
> c:\DropBox\fossil-repos\> fossil new my-project.fossil
>
> + Clone the repo in DropBox to my local workstation, laptop, etc,
> so on each, I do this:
> c:\> cd fossil-repo-clones
> c:\fossil-repo-clones\> fossil clone \DropBox\fossil-repos\my-
> project.fossil my-project.fossil
>
> + Open the local clone in a dedicated development directory and
> commit the initial files (intial file commit done once, on the system
> where the code base starts):
> c:\> cd dev-projects\my-project
> c:\dev-projects\my-project\> fossil open \fossil-repo-clones\my-
> project.fossil
> c:\dev-projects\my-project\> fossil add .
> <output here...>
> c:\dev-projects\my-project\> fossil commit -m "Initial commit of
> files. Starting development."
>
>
> My big question is, am I wasting my time creating the local clones
> on all my different systems? Should I just the repo in my DropBox and
> simply open on my various systems?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for looking at my issue and helping.
>
>
> David
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