Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread Ron W
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:06 PM, j. van den hoff wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2015 19:24:38 +0200, Ron W wrote: >> >> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:10 AM, j. van den hoff < >> veedeeh...@googlemail.com> >> wrote: >> >> the "request to work on branch" is the catch: he wants to ensure that >>> students ca

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 27 May 2015 19:24:38 +0200, Ron W wrote: (Sorry, accidently clicked the "Send" button when trying to click the "unfold" icon in the editor.) On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:10 AM, j. van den hoff wrote: the "request to work on branch" is the catch: he wants to ensure that students can

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 27 May 2015 18:49:46 +0200, David Mason wrote: I use Fossil in 2 ways with students. 1) for each research project I have a Fossil, and all Grad students working on that project (and I) have commit access. There are few enough people that it works out. I think that's what my colle

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 27 May 2015 18:05:15 +0200, Andy Bradford wrote: Thus said "j. van den hoff" on Wed, 27 May 2015 12:10:57 +0200: the "request to work on branch" is the catch: he wants to ensure that students can never mess up trunk, i.e. must technically not be able to merge anything into trunk.

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread Ron W
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Martin Gagnon wrote: > > I wonder if it would be a good idea to implement a new feature that > would be half way between per-branch push permission and emailing > bundles ? > I am wondering if there's a way to do a pull in such a way that it could be "purged" simi

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread John Found
On Wed, 27 May 2015 08:01:54 -0400 Martin Gagnon wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 07:25:43AM -0400, Richard Hipp wrote: > > On 5/27/15, j. van den hoff wrote: > > > he wants to ensure that > > > students can never mess up trunk, i.e. must technically not be able to > > > merge anything into trun

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread sky5walk
Yes, I asked about this in another thread. Can we use TH1 to color the Timeline entries per User? On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Ron W wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > >> Fossil provides capabilities that make >> it trival for the instructor to see that a studen

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread Ron W
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > Fossil provides capabilities that make > it trival for the instructor to see that a student has pushed to > trunk It would be even more trivial to see such pushes if fossil time line could color the user names in the timeline display. Even

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread Ron W
(Sorry, accidently clicked the "Send" button when trying to click the "unfold" icon in the editor.) On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:10 AM, j. van den hoff wrote: > the "request to work on branch" is the catch: he wants to ensure that > students can never mess up trunk You could achieve a "safety net

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread Ron W
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:10 AM, j. van den hoff wrote: > a colleague is considering to use fossil in a setup where he (the group > leader) supervises several students having dedicated tasks within a larger > project. what he would like to do is > > * set up master repo > > * give student(s) clon

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread Ron W
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > The other approach would be to deny "push" privileges to the students > and force them to email in "bundles" that contain their changes, to be > added back to the trunk administratively by the instructor. That's a > lot more work on the inst

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread David Mason
I use Fossil in 2 ways with students. 1) for each research project I have a Fossil, and all Grad students working on that project (and I) have commit access. There are few enough people that it works out. 2) for assignments, I create a Fossil per student and the student plus the marker(s) and I

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said "j. van den hoff" on Wed, 27 May 2015 12:10:57 +0200: > the "request to work on branch" is the catch: he wants to ensure that > students can never mess up trunk, i.e. must technically not be able to > merge anything into trunk. Trunk in *which* clone of the repository? Perhaps the

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 27 May 2015 13:25:43 +0200, Richard Hipp wrote: On 5/27/15, j. van den hoff wrote: he wants to ensure that students can never mess up trunk, i.e. must technically not be able to merge anything into trunk. When the students have a copy of the repo on their local machine, they can ove

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread Martin Gagnon
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 07:25:43AM -0400, Richard Hipp wrote: > On 5/27/15, j. van den hoff wrote: > > he wants to ensure that > > students can never mess up trunk, i.e. must technically not be able to > > merge anything into trunk. ... > > The other approach would be to deny "push" privileg

Re: [fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread Richard Hipp
On 5/27/15, j. van den hoff wrote: > he wants to ensure that > students can never mess up trunk, i.e. must technically not be able to > merge anything into trunk. When the students have a copy of the repo on their local machine, they can override any permissions that anybody sets up and do absolu

[fossil-users] workflow question

2015-05-27 Thread j. van den hoff
a colleague is considering to use fossil in a setup where he (the group leader) supervises several students having dedicated tasks within a larger project. what he would like to do is * set up master repo * give student(s) clone/pull/push permisisons for the repo * require student(s) to bra