I've been using fossil this way with Dropbox for over a year now. I have never seen any fossil repo corruption or had other issues.
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 6:02 AM, David Botham <[email protected]> wrote: > 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). > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >
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