Thanks Edward, This works indeed. in the end the solution was to keep only the repository on the usb and create a checkout on each platform. Henk
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Edward Berner <e...@bernerfam.com> wrote: > On 7/26/2013 1:38 AM, henk harmsen wrote: >> >> At work I have a Windows 7 laptop, at home a Linux Debian system on >> which I do the real work. No network traffic is allowed but the files >> may be put on an encrypted USB. So my fossils are on the USB. >> >> The problem that I am facing is that the Debian path starts with >> /media/usb/mydir, >> whereas in Windows that is G:\mydir. >> So, "fossil status" gives : >> "current directory is not within an open checkout". >> >> Is there a workaround for this? > > > If you open the repository using a relative path I think Fossil will > remember the relative path (it used to convert it to an absolute path but > that changed some time ago). Also, some aspects of Windows can handle > forward-slashes in filenames. So... try keeping your repository one > directory above your checkout and opening it as "fossil open ../repo.fossil" > and see if both platforms are happy with that. > > -- > Edward Berner > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
