Re: [fossil-users] 'open --nested', quick poll

2014-07-25 Thread Warren Young
On 7/22/2014 08:38, Michai Ramakers wrote: I was wondering how many of you use 'open --nested' to have nested workdirs? Thanks to this thread, I became aware of open --nested, and promptly found a use for it. So thank you. :) Here's the problem that open --nested solved for us: We keep tw

Re: [fossil-users] 'open --nested', quick poll

2014-07-22 Thread Andy Goth
On 7/22/2014 9:38 AM, Michai Ramakers wrote: I was wondering how many of you use 'open --nested' to have nested workdirs? Tcl nests whatever repositories you want checked out into subdirectories of pkgs. Each nested repository is expected to further nest the Tclconfig repository (itcl and th

Re: [fossil-users] 'open --nested', quick poll

2014-07-22 Thread Michai Ramakers
On 22 July 2014 21:18, Matt Welland wrote: > We are using -nested very successfully to break a large area of related but > mostly independent sub-areas into multiple fossils. I'm very happy with it. > > BTW, the whole reason why the modern SCM approach used by fossil, git etc. > is so powerful is

Re: [fossil-users] 'open --nested', quick poll

2014-07-22 Thread Matt Welland
We are using -nested very successfully to break a large area of related but mostly independent sub-areas into multiple fossils. I'm very happy with it. BTW, the whole reason why the modern SCM approach used by fossil, git etc. is so powerful is because the number of degrees of freedom were reduced

Re: [fossil-users] 'open --nested', quick poll

2014-07-22 Thread Matt Welland
NOTE: In Unix there is the handy shortcut that you can leave off the target location: ln -s foo/bar will create the link: bar -> foo/bar Quite handy and yet another reason for the parameter ordering used on Linux/Unix. On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Warren Young wrote: > On 7/22/2014 10:4

Re: [fossil-users] 'open --nested', quick poll

2014-07-22 Thread Warren Young
On 7/22/2014 10:43, Warren Young wrote: the mklink command has its options in reverse order I shouldn't say "option" here. I mean the two path names you have to give to both mklink and ln: $ ln source symlink-target C:\> mklink symlink-target source

Re: [fossil-users] 'open --nested', quick poll

2014-07-22 Thread Warren Young
On 7/22/2014 10:22, Ron W wrote: Yes, I know that modern versions of Windows support symlinks, but I was getting eros from the command so I just did nested check outs instead. Native symlinks on Windows are a mess. First, the mklink command has its options in reverse order as compared to ln(

Re: [fossil-users] 'open --nested', quick poll

2014-07-22 Thread Ron W
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Michai Ramakers wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering how many of you use 'open --nested' to have nested > workdirs? > I have used it on MS Windows on a few occasions where I might otherwise have used symbolic links (Yes, I know that modern versions of Windows sup

Re: [fossil-users] 'open --nested', quick poll

2014-07-22 Thread Stephan Beal
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Michai Ramakers wrote: > I was wondering how many of you use 'open --nested' to have nested > workdirs? > nope > A long time ago I asked here how/why/if people divided multiple-target > project-trees into repos; some (like me) use one big repo for all, and > so

[fossil-users] 'open --nested', quick poll

2014-07-22 Thread Michai Ramakers
Hello, I was wondering how many of you use 'open --nested' to have nested workdirs? A bit of background: A long time ago I asked here how/why/if people divided multiple-target project-trees into repos; some (like me) use one big repo for all, and some use many small repos. So this is not a real