On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Riza Dindir <riza.din...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > I have been using CVS and WinCVS for a while now, and stumbled upon fossil. > I find fossil very interesting, and usefull because it provides tickets, > events, and > a wiki with it, in a standalone single package. Outstanding in my opinion. > > I have a question regarding fossil and its usage. I was using CVS with > modules in the repository. I have many different directories in CVS for > example code, projects, notes, etc. Whatever you can think of. And had many > different levels of subdirectories. My CVS repository has many projects in > it. The CVSROOT is about 250 Meg and counting. > A year and half ago, when the 9-year history of SQLlite was imported from CVS into Fossil, the 320MB CVS repository was rendered into a 35MB Fossil repository. Fossil, it seems, does a much better job of compressing. (To be fair, most of the 320MB of CVS were contained in the CVSROOT/history file.) See http://www.fossil-scm.org/doc/trunk/www/stats.wiki for additional information. > > Given this picture, how could I do that in fossil effectively. Is it better > to provide different repositories for each project, or have all the CVS > repository directory structure reside in one repository file in fossil. If > that repository file (.fossil file) is a couple hundred megabytes (and it > will grow) would that have an impact in the performance, or usage of > fossil? > I would put each independent project in a separate repository. > > Another question would be... Is it possible to selectively check out > one directory and its subdirectories (a module) from the repository? > Fossil does not have the concept of a module or a partial tree check-out. You have to check out the entire tree or none at all. This is true of all DVCSes, as far as I am aware. > > Thanks in advance for any information. > > Kind regards, > rd > > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org
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