Re: [fossil-users] multiple independent check-outs against the same repository

2015-03-20 Thread Jan Nijtmans
2015-03-20 4:56 GMT+01:00 Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org: I rue the day that I allowed that patch to land on trunk. But it is all fixed now - you won't have the problem with 1.32. Note that the initial empty commit is an unique feature of fossil, GIT and SVN don't have that. Abilio started with a

Re: [fossil-users] multiple independent check-outs against the same repository

2015-03-20 Thread John Found
On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 11:46:14 +0200 John Found johnfo...@asm32.info wrote: On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 22:36:56 -0430 Abilio Marques abili...@gmail.com wrote: I started to think: what does it mean to have multiple independent check-outs? And I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep well because of not

Re: [fossil-users] multiple independent check-outs against the same repository

2015-03-20 Thread John Found
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 22:36:56 -0430 Abilio Marques abili...@gmail.com wrote: I started to think: what does it mean to have multiple independent check-outs? And I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep well because of not knowing. So I created a new test repo, and began: It really surprised me. Using

Re: [fossil-users] multiple independent check-outs against the same repository

2015-03-20 Thread Reimer Behrends
David Macek wrote: First, there's the option of cloning the repository locally, which will result in two working copies you can work on independently. Maybe too independently, as each working copy has its own repo. If you want to see some structure there, you can keep one clone as a bare repo

Re: [fossil-users] multiple independent check-outs against the same repository

2015-03-20 Thread David Macek
On 20. 3. 2015 21:30, Warren Young wrote: On Mar 19, 2015, at 9:27 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: There is no documentation because I could not conceive of wanting to use a VCS in any other way. It’s been several years since Git emerged as top dog in the DVCS race, so there must

Re: [fossil-users] multiple independent check-outs against the same repository

2015-03-20 Thread Warren Young
On Mar 19, 2015, at 9:27 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: There is no documentation because I could not conceive of wanting to use a VCS in any other way. It’s been several years since Git emerged as top dog in the DVCS race, so there must be a significant number of people who have

[fossil-users] multiple independent check-outs against the same repository

2015-03-19 Thread Abilio Marques
After reading Mr. Hipp answer to some previous email about git saying: So the staging area is being used as a way of working around the fact that Git does not allow multiple independent check-outs against the same repository? Am I understanding that correctly? I started to think: what does it

Re: [fossil-users] multiple independent check-outs against the same repository

2015-03-19 Thread Richard Hipp
On 3/19/15, Abilio Marques abili...@gmail.com wrote: After reading Mr. Hipp answer to some previous email about git saying: So the staging area is being used as a way of working around the fact that Git does not allow multiple independent check-outs against the same repository? Am I

Re: [fossil-users] multiple independent check-outs against the same repository

2015-03-19 Thread Richard Hipp
On 3/19/15, Abilio Marques abili...@gmail.com wrote: PS: after running my quick test in fossil 1.31, I ended with two separate artifacts, both on trunk, but without a common ancestor. I'm running Ubuntu, and I haven't compiled the 1.32. I believe that version was released as a patch for this

Re: [fossil-users] multiple independent check-outs against the same repository

2015-03-19 Thread Abilio Marques
I imagined some of those scenarios right away after my experiment... Some are great... Until today, I was doing a fossil clone file:// or ssh:// ... Now I can deal with just a single copy of the repo. I only see it quickly and indirectly mentioned in section 2.3 here: