Re: [fossil-users] branch assistance needed

2018-07-06 Thread dewey.hyl...@gmail.com
On Jul 6, 2018, at 1:02 PM, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote: > Here’s my best-effort attempt at recreating what the OP described: > >https://imgur.com/a/6S4Y1nw > > You either end up with two trunk branches or a single branch plus a checkin > off > the trunk branch that also happens t

Re: [fossil-users] branch assistance needed

2018-07-06 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 5, 2018, at 12:22 PM, Nicola wrote: > > moving check-ins between branches is implemented by simply renaming tags. It’s better to say that you can move a checkin *and all of its children* by adding/changing a propagating tag to that checkin. In Fossil UI, this is the "Make this check-in

Re: [fossil-users] branch assistance needed

2018-07-05 Thread Nicola
On 04/07/2018 16:42, jungle Boogie wrote: On 12:42AM, Wed, Jul 4, 2018 Nicola > Maybe, the sentence above could be complemented with an example of how > to do that and how *not* to do it (e.g., explaining what the effect of > adding a 'trunk' tag to a random check-in is and why it should not

Re: [fossil-users] branch assistance needed

2018-07-05 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 4, 2018, at 9:50 AM, Dewey Hylton wrote: > > The solution ended up being much less messy than I anticipated Yes; while Fossil will let you create awful messes, this is mitigated by several design choices: 1. It’s really hard to make Fossil actually lose data. It can be done, but it ta

Re: [fossil-users] branch assistance needed

2018-07-04 Thread Dewey Hylton
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 8:57 PM Richard Hipp wrote: > On 7/3/18, Dewey Hylton wrote: > > > Essentially what I did was to commit a change to a new branch, forget I > was > > in that branch and committed another unrelated change which should have > > gone back to trunk but went into the branch. > >

Re: [fossil-users] branch assistance needed

2018-07-04 Thread jungle Boogie
On 12:42AM, Wed, Jul 4, 2018 Nicola wrote: > > On 04/07/2018 00:18, Warren Young wrote:> On Jul 3, 2018, at 3:09 PM, > Dewey Hylton wrote: > > >> I then attempted to change that latest commit by adding a 'trunk' > tag and cancelling the new branch tag. > > > > Ow! > As a newbie Fossil user, af

Re: [fossil-users] branch assistance needed

2018-07-04 Thread Marcelo
El mié., 4 jul. 2018 a las 4:42, Nicola () escribió: > Maybe, the sentence above could be complemented with an example of how > to do that and how *not* to do it (e.g., explaining what the effect of > adding a 'trunk' tag to a random check-in is and why it should not be > done). > ​+1 ___

Re: [fossil-users] branch assistance needed

2018-07-04 Thread Nicola
On 04/07/2018 00:18, Warren Young wrote:> On Jul 3, 2018, at 3:09 PM, Dewey Hylton wrote: >> I then attempted to change that latest commit by adding a 'trunk' tag and cancelling the new branch tag. > > Ow! As a newbie Fossil user, after reading https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/t

Re: [fossil-users] branch assistance needed

2018-07-03 Thread Richard Hipp
On 7/3/18, Dewey Hylton wrote: > Essentially what I did was to commit a change to a new branch, forget I was > in that branch and committed another unrelated change which should have > gone back to trunk but went into the branch. I made that same mistake myself, recently. See https://www.sqlite

Re: [fossil-users] branch assistance needed

2018-07-03 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 3, 2018, at 3:09 PM, Dewey Hylton wrote: > > Essentially what I did was to commit a change to a new branch, forget I was > in that branch and committed another unrelated change which should have gone > back to trunk but went into the branch. That’s no big problem so far. I’ve done it m

Re: [fossil-users] branch assistance needed

2018-07-03 Thread Eduard
1) See the `--cherrypick` switch to `fossil merge`. 2) a. undo the tags you've fiddled with, so that branch=trunk is original trunk and side-branch is branch=side-branch. b. fossil checkout trunk c. fossil merge --cherrypick d. (optional) move the erroneous commit (I'm assuming the last co

Re: [fossil-users] branch assistance needed

2018-07-03 Thread bch
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 2:09 PM Dewey Hylton wrote: > I've used fossil for years now with lots of commits to trunk and very few > very simple branches which tend to get merged right into trunk after only a > few commits. I have managed to get myself in a confusing place with one of > my projects.

[fossil-users] branch assistance needed

2018-07-03 Thread Dewey Hylton
I've used fossil for years now with lots of commits to trunk and very few very simple branches which tend to get merged right into trunk after only a few commits. I have managed to get myself in a confusing place with one of my projects. Essentially what I did was to commit a change to a new branc