-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/30/2014 2:40 PM, Andy Goth wrote: > Now I have been given a few older versions. What's the best way to > go about putting them into the repository? > > I know I can check them in with --allow-older and the > --date-override options, though this will produce a very funky > timeline display. Is there a better way?
I cloned my repository and did the above as a test just to see how bad it comes out. Well, it's pretty bad. Not only is the timeline bizarre, the default diffs are unhelpful too. Diffs are typically against the predecessor version, but in this situation, Fossil's concept of "predecessor" doesn't match the naïve user expectation. Surprise notwithstanding, this is correct behavior in face of the time paradox. I think my best course of action is to not try to put the old code into the repository unless I am given a more complete archive of historical versions, at which time it might be worthwhile to rebuild the repository with everything put in the right sequence. Of course this blows away all the artifact IDs, but that would be acceptable at this stage. Let's say I do this, using the oldest known version as the initial commit, and everything seems good for a while. But then someone finds an in-between version thought to have been lost. I would update to its predecessor version then check it in with the date override, either allowing the fork or putting it on an branch. The timeline would look mostly good, but only because the predecessor version already existed. Diffs surrounding the newfound would have to be done with explicitly selected from and to versions, but that's a small price to pay for not having to rebuild the repository and trash the artifact IDs. Then a version older than the previously oldest known version is found. Now we're in trouble again. Maybe I could have prevented that last problem by making the initial empty check-in be dated before the project was known to have started, so there would never be anything older than it. Thoughts? - -- Andy Goth | <andrew.m.goth/at/gmail/dot/com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUAi4UAAoJELtYwrrr47Y4J8MIAMbIomO0T3d/lNiClwMi7Ph1 uoeWBPmmz1hd8cQlgT0uS/u6bhYQkOSqeDRM3kWPJCV9iDeRAdQ2wfJjT2/iv3ez OWQGDQcveIL36yBVzBAzGMmTrLKxtSxSZ5gjHzi6t7hn3bALz+6JySbDiHqUhNui 0QlvLz1+I0JyUepWw4OXzX6FzTUY4ldgjjjjZWz88N6DojX89zTdnwJo4sgFj8tV 1iL+xIwoQVDzoB+UMPc4uLGuMTSBDU5rzQS9ohvliniadoRPeI52BanLnm3zNP36 pp1BI3cKKynJH1DPP7ybTD0Y3XM6HqQUiO83JCsZSBAtn44zKJ86Qwpb/zzpIog= =g08t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
