I have long wanted to do this but on the one occasion I tried I got lost inside fossil.

the problem is fossil expects venti to have a hierarchy of the form /active/ and /archive/ where as your venti does not, I guess it has just your home dir.

it is easy to create the required placeholder in a new fossil attached to your fossil. what is missing is a fossil admin command to create a new directory but attach it to a given, existing venti score. if you could do this you could creat an empty fossil attached to your existing fossil and then populate your /archive/yyyy/mmdd/usr/yourname with each venti score you have from your old vac(1)s.

have a look at the fossil create command.

-Steve




> On 17 Dec 2015, at 17:05, Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ole.hjalmar.kristensen@gmail.com> wrote:
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