Re: [fossil-users] Creating a commit without a parent

2015-01-22 Thread Stephan Beal
The "bug" part was working through the assumptions in older code which expected to always have exactly one initial commit. Once those were resolved (largely by Jan), it graduated to a feature. - stephan Sent from a mobile device, possibly from bed. Please excuse brevity and typos. On Jan 22, 2

Re: [fossil-users] Creating a commit without a parent

2015-01-22 Thread Jan Nijtmans
2015-01-22 17:50 GMT+01:00 Ron W : > So, a "bug" was promoted to a feature? Hm, yes, that's one way to look at it. Actually, having more than one "initial" commit is not a bug. The only problem was that the fossil code assumed in some places that there was only one. The bug was that fossil mis-be

Re: [fossil-users] Creating a commit without a parent

2015-01-22 Thread Ron W
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:16 AM, Jan Nijtmans wrote: > --empty Initialize checkout as being empty, but still > connected > with the local repository. If you commit this > checkout, > it will become a new "initial" commit in the > rep

Re: [fossil-users] Creating a commit without a parent

2015-01-22 Thread Andy Gibbs
On Thursday, January 22, 2015 11:16 AM, Jan Nijtmans wrote: 2015-01-22 10:43 GMT+01:00 Andy Gibbs : I am trying to create a commit without a parent, effectively so that I can create a separate stream inside my repository, in no way linked to trunk and all its branches. Use "fossil open --emp

Re: [fossil-users] Creating a commit without a parent

2015-01-22 Thread Stephan Beal
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Baruch Burstein wrote: > Sorry, I didn't see you had already answered the same! (I had started > writing my answer before you answered, so it didn't refresh) > Confirmation is good, plus i forgot the tags! -- - stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/

Re: [fossil-users] Creating a commit without a parent

2015-01-22 Thread Jan Nijtmans
2015-01-22 10:43 GMT+01:00 Andy Gibbs : > I am trying to create a commit without a parent, effectively so that I can > create a separate stream inside my repository, in no way linked to trunk and > all its branches. Use "fossil open --empty ." $ fossil open --help Usage: fossil open FILEN

Re: [fossil-users] Creating a commit without a parent

2015-01-22 Thread Baruch Burstein
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Stephan Beal > wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Andy Gibbs >> wrote: >> >>> I am trying to create a commit without a parent, effectively so that I >>> can create a separate stream inside my re

Re: [fossil-users] Creating a commit without a parent

2015-01-22 Thread Baruch Burstein
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Andy Gibbs wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to create a commit without a parent, effectively so that I can > create a separate stream inside my repository, in no way linked to trunk > and all its branches. > > I cannot find in the documentation how to do this, but I

Re: [fossil-users] Creating a commit without a parent

2015-01-22 Thread Stephan Beal
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Andy Gibbs > wrote: > >> I am trying to create a commit without a parent, effectively so that I >> can create a separate stream inside my repository, in no way linked to >> trunk and all its branches. >> >>

Re: [fossil-users] Creating a commit without a parent

2015-01-22 Thread Stephan Beal
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Andy Gibbs wrote: > I am trying to create a commit without a parent, effectively so that I can > create a separate stream inside my repository, in no way linked to trunk > and all its branches. > > I cannot find in the documentation how to do this, but I know tha

[fossil-users] Creating a commit without a parent

2015-01-22 Thread Andy Gibbs
Hi, I am trying to create a commit without a parent, effectively so that I can create a separate stream inside my repository, in no way linked to trunk and all its branches. I cannot find in the documentation how to do this, but I know that it is possible because Jan Nijtmans has managed to