I want to give a thought on how I use fossil regularly and on what I would love as a feature.
While fossil is easy to set up and maintain, I often have several small projects that seem to be to small to get an own instance of a repository for themselfes. Additionally, I like to use fossil, because it reduces the number of files to manage (1 repo instead of dozens of files per project). That spoken, I have bunch of code-samples and abstracted code-problems in different programming languages and flavours, that I keep as personal knowledge database. I tend to give each of them its own fossil repository, but as I mentioned before, sometimes they have just one or two files. My old solution was to have one repository with one set of folders for each sub-project. But Timeline get messy really fast and it is hard to track sub-projects with this approach. My current solution is to have one repository with an empty initial check-in tagged as ROOT. Then I do one branch per sub-project based on the ROOT check-in. That way I'm able to keep my code cleanly detached from each another, but it feels really dirty - cause that's in no way the correct handling of branches. What I really would like to have is to gather multiple such small projects in one repo file, so instead of having one ROOT check-in, having one ROOT for each project. I know that would make developing fossil a bit harder, but I think it would be a great feature and that not I'm the only one who would use this. In the simpliest logic I can imagine this would mean nothing more than one additional layer, branches belong to project. For the normal use, each branch would just belong to the default project. But I guess that implementing this could be much harder, especially visualizations in the web-frontend. But what do you think about multiple projects in one repo? What would be your approach on my problem?
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