[fossil-users] Official approved way of moving a repo?

2013-01-08 Thread John Long
I just finished deleting a few dozen repos since I moved a bunch of source code to another machine and fossil refused to like it. After that I found a discussion on the mailing lists about test-move-repository. Not a big deal since this was all test stuff but I would like to know what the official

Re: [fossil-users] Official approved way of moving a repo?

2013-01-08 Thread Stephan Beal
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:22 PM, John Long codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: I just finished deleting a few dozen repos since I moved a bunch of source code to another machine and fossil refused to like it. After that I found a discussion on the mailing lists about test-move-repository. Not a big deal

Re: [fossil-users] Official approved way of moving a repo?

2013-01-08 Thread Martin Gagnon
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 12:42:19PM +, John Long wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 01:31:18PM +0100, Stephan Beal wrote: On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:22 PM, John Long codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: I just finished deleting a few dozen repos since I moved a bunch of source code to another machine

Re: [fossil-users] Official approved way of moving a repo?

2013-01-08 Thread Stephan Beal
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Martin Gagnon eme...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't thought it through from a file integrity point of view but I'm looking for a way to do this given the repo is open and is in a new location. Also, by closing the repo, you will loose your stash and latest

Re: [fossil-users] Official approved way of moving a repo?

2013-01-08 Thread Richard Hipp
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: Be aware: that thread refers to a file named _FOSSIL_. That file is now called .fslckout. ... on non-windows systems. On windows, the file is still called _FOSSIL_ because some windows systems have issues with

Re: [fossil-users] Official approved way of moving a repo?

2013-01-08 Thread Stefan Bellon
On Tue, 08 Jan, Richard Hipp wrote: [...] On windows, the file is still called _FOSSIL_ because some windows systems have issues with filenames that begin with .. Is this really (still) the case? Subversion uses directories called .svn for years now. And the GnuWin32 toolchain uses files like

Re: [fossil-users] Official approved way of moving a repo?

2013-01-08 Thread Stephan Beal
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Stefan Bellon sbel...@sbellon.de wrote: In fact, this fossil behaviour puzzles me a lot because I tend to share working copies via network share and at some point I end up having _FOSSIL_ and .fslckout which are not in sync. Perhaps having a configuration

Re: [fossil-users] Official approved way of moving a repo?

2013-01-08 Thread Richard Hipp
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Stefan Bellon sbel...@sbellon.de wrote: In fact, this fossil behaviour puzzles me a lot because I tend to share working copies via network share and at some point I end up having _FOSSIL_ and .fslckout which are not in sync. Both windows and unix should look

Re: [fossil-users] Official approved way of moving a repo?

2013-01-08 Thread Stefan Bellon
On Tue, 08 Jan, Richard Hipp wrote: Both windows and unix should look for both filenames. So you shouldn't ever run into a case where you end up with both (unless some of your machines are running a very old version of Fossil). If you have a test case that demonstrates otherwise, I'd sure