I'd like to know more about this as well. As I understand it you can nest
fossil repositories, I haven't tried it yet, but AFAIK you can have a
nested checkout within an existing checkout, and you can open it with the
"fossil open --nested" command.

2011/11/14 Jacek Cała <jacek.c...@gmail.com>

>  Hi all,
>
> A best practice question:
> What is the preferred way to include external libraries in a fossil
> repository? I mean larger dependencies like boost.
> For small libs and tools like a few binary or source code files, I
> tend to include them directly in the repo but for larger ones it
> doesn't seem like a proper approach, esp. when the library code is
> much larger than my sources.
>
> On stackoverflow I read that git to address this issue has something
> called 'subprojects'
> (
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2994005/including-external-c-libraries-in-version-control
> ).
> Has anyone used that? Is creating a separate fossil repo with the
> library files an equivalent way?
>
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