On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 12:17:00PM -0400, David Mason wrote:
> The more newbie help the better... I - for one - certainly appreciate it.
I wrote a set of notes years ago covering the issues described in this
guide, as reminders for myself. I kept meaning to flesh it out a bit
and post it online,
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 6:17 PM, David Mason wrote:
> On the fossil files in or out of the project directory, I suspect most
> of the cases Stephen and others have had with mangling/deleting fossil
> db files could be obviated (on Linux and Mac OS X) by calling the
> fossil file something like .fo
The more newbie help the better... I - for one - certainly appreciate it.
On the fossil files in or out of the project directory, I suspect most
of the cases Stephen and others have had with mangling/deleting fossil
db files could be obviated (on Linux and Mac OS X) by calling the
fossil file some
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Richard Hipp wrote:
> Fossil and Monotone uses a relational database whereas Git uses an ad-hoc
> "pile-of-files" database.
>
Reminder to self or other dev: that whole answer belongs verbatim in one of
the wiki/doc pages, IMO, if it's not there already.
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On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 12:15:57PM +0200, Michai Ramakers wrote:
> On 8 August 2013 22:25, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > This "Fossil For New Users" intro to doing the basics in Fossil was a
> > few minutes' work, in part as a reminder for myself. I thought it might
> > be useful for others as well, tho
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 10:48:36PM +0200, j. van den hoff wrote:
> >
> > 1.
> > the "Unlike most popular DVCSes..." is a bit misleading. all of them
> have
> > a database for each checkout, of course, but not in a single file.
> backing
> > th
On 8 August 2013 22:25, Chad Perrin wrote:
> This "Fossil For New Users" intro to doing the basics in Fossil was a
> few minutes' work, in part as a reminder for myself. I thought it might
> be useful for others as well, though, so I finally decided to put it
> online.
>
> http://blogstrappin
On 8 August 2013 22:25, Chad Perrin wrote:
> This "Fossil For New Users" intro to doing the basics in Fossil was a
> few minutes' work, in part as a reminder for myself. I thought it might
> be useful for others as well, though, so I finally decided to put it
> online.
>
> http://blogstrappin
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 10:48:36PM +0200, j. van den hoff wrote:
>
> 1.
> the "Unlike most popular DVCSes..." is a bit misleading. all of them have
> a database for each checkout, of course, but not in a single file. backing
> them up is not really that much more complicated. I would try to e
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 23:36:14 +0200, Stephan Beal
wrote:
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:31 PM, j. van den hoff
wrote:
but what does this proof? the next guy might be a tidy up fanatic and
accidentally remove the directory with all the repository files, right?
My point is only that that type of
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:31 PM, j. van den hoff
wrote:
> but what does this proof? the next guy might be a tidy up fanatic and
> accidentally remove the directory with all the repository files, right?
>
My point is only that that type of goof-up happens much more often if the
files are in the sa
> i _strongly_ recommend against keeping the repo db in the same dir as a
> checkout. Very little can go wrong when they're separated and lots can go
> wrong when they're not.
>
Wholeheartedly concur. In just over two years of daily usage I've lost data
exactly once and that was due to having my r
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 23:12:52 +0200, Stephan Beal
wrote:
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:48 PM, j. van den hoff
wrote:
2.
I'm not comfortable with categorically recommending to new users to
separate the database from the checkout. I know that many on this list
think this to be a good thing but in
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:48 PM, j. van den hoff
wrote:
> 2.
> I'm not comfortable with categorically recommending to new users to
> separate the database from the checkout. I know that many on this list
> think this to be a good thing but in general
In fossil keeping them in the same dir can an
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 22:25:33 +0200, Chad Perrin wrote:
This "Fossil For New Users" intro to doing the basics in Fossil was a
few minutes' work, in part as a reminder for myself. I thought it might
be useful for others as well, though, so I finally decided to put it
online.
http://blogstra
This "Fossil For New Users" intro to doing the basics in Fossil was a
few minutes' work, in part as a reminder for myself. I thought it might
be useful for others as well, though, so I finally decided to put it
online.
http://blogstrapping.com/?page=2013.220.13.42.53
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