Could i convince one of the devs more familiar with the symlinks bits
refine Joerg's explanation below into one of the embedded docs? It's a
pretty good explanation/summary, IMO.
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 8:33 PM, j. van den hoff
veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote:
On Fri, 09 May 2014 19:45:01 +0200,
I was asked off the list to share what I ended up using. It was really
quite simple in the end. I somehow missed the setting allow-symlinks.
With this turned on, I just create symbolic links in the local tree and
now, on the rare occasions that I pull, the link ins't wiped out, but
the file
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Joseph Mingrone j...@ftfl.ca wrote:
can easily deal with those issues. So, ~/scm/host_config.fossil/
contains the repository (host_config.fossil) and symbolic links to files
all over the system (/etc/ and /usr/local/etc/ mostly). So far this has
worked well
On Fri, 09 May 2014 17:30:02 +0200, Joseph Mingrone j...@ftfl.ca wrote:
I was asked off the list to share what I ended up using. It was really
quite simple in the end. I somehow missed the setting allow-symlinks.
With this turned on, I just create symbolic links in the local tree and
now, on
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 6:30 PM, j. van den hoff
veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote:
modified. so my understanding is when 'on' the softlinks are just
maintained
in the repo while when 'off' (the default) the system should behave like
what you describe:
track the changes across the softlinks
FYI, beware that there may be a bug with symlinks support in the more
recent versions of fossil. I haven't reported it as I haven't had time to
reproduce it but a couple of users have complained that when they
clone/open a fossil that has allow-symlinks = true that the symlinks are
replaced by the
On Fri, 09 May 2014 19:45:01 +0200, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com
wrote:
FYI, beware that there may be a bug with symlinks support in the more
recent versions of fossil. I haven't reported it as I haven't had time to
reproduce it but a couple of users have complained that when they
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 8:33 PM, j. van den hoff
veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote:
b)
if this repo is cloned and opened, indeed the original files materialize
in the checkout, i.e. the symlink information is lost (probably never
was there in the repo?). I presume(...) this also does not
On Fri, 09 May 2014 20:42:06 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com
wrote:
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 8:33 PM, j. van den hoff
veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote:
b)
if this repo is cloned and opened, indeed the original files materialize
in the checkout, i.e. the symlink information is lost
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 9:02 PM, j. van den hoff
veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote:
On Fri, 09 May 2014 20:42:06 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com
wrote:
IMO. (That said, i never was a big fan of having symlink support in
fossil!)
well, the possibility to do that symlink trick for
On Fri, 09 May 2014 21:07:59 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com
wrote:
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 9:02 PM, j. van den hoff
veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote:
On Fri, 09 May 2014 20:42:06 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com
wrote:
IMO. (That said, i never was a big fan of having
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Joseph Mingrone j...@ftfl.ca wrote:
Thank you all for taking the time to share your thoughts. Since I
won't be moving these files around too often, I think I will give Fossil
(along with Tripwire) a go at this. Does Fossil have something
equivalent to
Thank you all for taking the time to share your thoughts. Since I
won't be moving these files around too often, I think I will give Fossil
(along with Tripwire) a go at this. Does Fossil have something
equivalent to
another_unamed_scm config core.worktree ../../
which allows you to
On 4/28/2014 3:15 PM, Joseph Mingrone wrote:
Thank you all for taking the time to share your thoughts. Since I
won't be moving these files around too often, I think I will give Fossil
(along with Tripwire) a go at this. Does Fossil have something
equivalent to
another_unamed_scm
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:23:29AM -0400, Ron Wilson wrote:
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Will Parsons varro@nodomain.invalidwrote:
This kind of stuff isn't a project, and you don't
need the extra stuff that Fossil (or Git, Mercurial, Bazaar,
Subversion, or CVS) provide. I've tracked
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Joseph Mingrone j...@ftfl.ca wrote:
Is Fossil an appropriate tool for tracking system configuration files?
For for user-specific ones, IMO, and then not for everything, e.g. SSH
likes certain files to have certain permissions, and fossil does not do
permissions
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