Re: [fossil-users] Best way to work with two related repos?

2015-09-21 Thread Steve Stefanovich
‎I've managed to do this by using bundles.  Like OP, I needed to be able to share work between repos in seamless way. See below for my use case.  The only drawback is that I had to share more than I wanted (i.e. whole trunk branch) and had to resort to 'unofficial' Fossil build (which may or

Re: [fossil-users] Best way to work with two related repos?

2015-09-21 Thread Warren Young
On Sep 19, 2015, at 9:16 PM, Ron Aaron wrote: > > So the next obvious solution is to fork the repo. But now I have repo and > repo-custom, where the latter contains just the 'branch' of the customer. > > What I'm looking to do is have the ability to do merges using fossil,

Re: [fossil-users] Best way to work with two related repos?

2015-09-21 Thread Ron Aaron
Thanks, that's pretty much what I had figured, but I was hoping in vain for an easier solution. On 9/21/15 19:07, Warren Young wrote: On Sep 19, 2015, at 9:16 PM, Ron Aaron wrote: So the next obvious solution is to

Re: [fossil-users] Best way to work with two related repos?

2015-09-21 Thread Warren Young
On Sep 21, 2015, at 10:21 AM, Ron Aaron wrote: > > I was hoping in vain for an easier solution. How would you imagine Fossil would support this, which would end up being easier? Tree-based permissions? Now you’re reinventing your OS’s permission system, probably poorly,

Re: [fossil-users] Best way to work with two related repos?

2015-09-21 Thread Ron W
On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Ron Aaron wrote: > I'm looking for a good way to handle the following scenario: > > > I have a main repo with ongoing development. Now I have a customer who > wants a customized version of my product. > > The obvious thing is to simply add a

Re: [fossil-users] Best way to work with two related repos?

2015-09-21 Thread Warren Young
On Sep 21, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Ron W wrote: > > Is there a reason you half to do development in the customer specific > repository? OP said he can’t expose the customer-specific features to his other users, who have login rights on the main repo. > My thought is that you

Re: [fossil-users] Best way to work with two related repos?

2015-09-21 Thread Ross Berteig
On 9/21/2015 10:32 AM, Warren Young wrote: On Sep 21, 2015, at 10:21 AM, Ron Aaron wrote: I was hoping in vain for an easier solution. How would you imagine Fossil would support this, which would end up being easier? What about the Bundle mechanism? IIRC, it was