Can you show us what your directory structure looks like now? i think i understand what you are doing, but want to be sure before suggesting anything you might regret ;).
(sent from a mobile device - please excuse brevity, typos, and top-posting) ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net On Feb 10, 2015 2:03 AM, "Harry Putnam" <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> writes: > > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > > > >> I started with a very small experimental repo. > >> > >> Now I want to expand the repo quite a bit. > >> > >> It would involve moving upward in the existing hierarchy. That is, > >> the new setup would include the existing repo from above. And would > >> even include the directory where I stashed the current repos' database > >> file. > >> > >> So can this be done? If so can anyone post a suggested brief outline > >> of how to proceed? > >> > > > > Across separate repositories? Fossil has no mechanism for > > communication/sharing between repos (except for the special case of a > > "login group"). You will have to "add" the files into the destination > > repository, which will not retain any history from their previous > > repository. > > > > Or am i misunderstanding? > > Sort of. I'm not so concerned about losing my experimental repo > recoreds of its files. I was trying to ask if I could acquire a much > larger set of files by moving my current repo db file and then go to > the highest level of this specific hierarchy and just say `add .' to > greatly expand that repo. The `add' would also includ the existing repo > files but the repo would then include a much larger selection of > nowversioned files. I understand that the history of changes for the > files already versioned would be lost. Subsumed by the bigger repo. > > Or do I need to just forget my current repo and start over at the top > level instead of trying to expand the original repo? > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >
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