[fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread j. van den hoff
a colleague is considering to use fossil in a setup where he (the group leader) supervises several students having dedicated tasks within a larger project. what he would like to do is * set up master repo * give student(s) clone/pull/push permisisons for the repo * require student(s) to

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread Richard Hipp
On 5/27/15, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: he wants to ensure that students can never mess up trunk, i.e. must technically not be able to merge anything into trunk. When the students have a copy of the repo on their local machine, they can override any permissions that

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread Martin Gagnon
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 07:25:43AM -0400, Richard Hipp wrote: On 5/27/15, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: he wants to ensure that students can never mess up trunk, i.e. must technically not be able to merge anything into trunk. ... The other approach would be to

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread John Found
On Wed, 27 May 2015 08:01:54 -0400 Martin Gagnon eme...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 07:25:43AM -0400, Richard Hipp wrote: On 5/27/15, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: he wants to ensure that students can never mess up trunk, i.e. must technically not be able

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread Ron W
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Martin Gagnon eme...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if it would be a good idea to implement a new feature that would be half way between per-branch push permission and emailing bundles ? I am wondering if there's a way to do a pull in such a way that it could be

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 27 May 2015 18:05:15 +0200, Andy Bradford amb-sendok-1435334716.iohaonjclphfcadgm...@bradfords.org wrote: Thus said j. van den hoff on Wed, 27 May 2015 12:10:57 +0200: the request to work on branch is the catch: he wants to ensure that students can never mess up trunk, i.e. must

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 27 May 2015 18:49:46 +0200, David Mason dma...@ryerson.ca wrote: I use Fossil in 2 ways with students. 1) for each research project I have a Fossil, and all Grad students working on that project (and I) have commit access. There are few enough people that it works out. I think

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 27 May 2015 19:24:38 +0200, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote: (Sorry, accidently clicked the Send button when trying to click the unfold icon in the editor.) On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:10 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: the request to work on branch is the

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread Ron W
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:06 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2015 19:24:38 +0200, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:10 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: the request to work on branch is the catch: he wants to

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said j. van den hoff on Wed, 27 May 2015 12:10:57 +0200: the request to work on branch is the catch: he wants to ensure that students can never mess up trunk, i.e. must technically not be able to merge anything into trunk. Trunk in *which* clone of the repository? Perhaps the

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 27 May 2015 13:25:43 +0200, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On 5/27/15, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: he wants to ensure that students can never mess up trunk, i.e. must technically not be able to merge anything into trunk. When the students have a copy of the

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread David Mason
I use Fossil in 2 ways with students. 1) for each research project I have a Fossil, and all Grad students working on that project (and I) have commit access. There are few enough people that it works out. 2) for assignments, I create a Fossil per student and the student plus the marker(s) and I

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread Ron W
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:10 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: a colleague is considering to use fossil in a setup where he (the group leader) supervises several students having dedicated tasks within a larger project. what he would like to do is * set up master repo *

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread Ron W
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: Fossil provides capabilities that make it trival for the instructor to see that a student has pushed to trunk It would be even more trivial to see such pushes if fossil time line could color the user names in the timeline

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread Ron W
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: The other approach would be to deny push privileges to the students and force them to email in bundles that contain their changes, to be added back to the trunk administratively by the instructor. That's a lot more work on

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread sky5walk
Yes, I asked about this in another thread. Can we use TH1 to color the Timeline entries per User? On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: Fossil provides capabilities that make it trival for the

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread Ron W
(Sorry, accidently clicked the Send button when trying to click the unfold icon in the editor.) On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:10 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: the request to work on branch is the catch: he wants to ensure that students can never mess up trunk You could