Thank you very much for your reply and for developing fossil. rd
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 09:07:53 -0400, Richard Hipp 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
