I was asked off the list to share what I ended up using. It was really quite simple in the end. I somehow missed the setting "allow-symlinks". With this turned on, I just create symbolic links in the local tree and now, on the rare occasions that I pull, the link ins't wiped out, but the file pointed to be the link is updated. I can foresee the permission issues mentioned by others, but I rarely pull, so I hope I can easily deal with those issues. So, ~/scm/host_config.fossil/ contains the repository (host_config.fossil) and symbolic links to files all over the system (/etc/ and /usr/local/etc/ mostly). So far this has worked well for my needs, but I haven't messed with it too much so far.
Thanks for all your replies. Joseph _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
