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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] snapshots -> archives
Date: Wed,  7 May 2003 13:02:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a582bdf694baea2b94516c5752983f13@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6a792a21a9ac40f08688f7f5f15b3c69@vitanuova.com>

> i'm using venti on my laptop and haven't done snap -a very often (it
> needs to be done manually if the machine's not on all the time).
>
> i do however have lots of snapshots taken over the last month or so.
>
> question: is it possible to convert some of these snapshots to entries
> in archive.  it would mean that i wouldn't lose all that history,
> which currently i will.
>
> the only other alternative that i can see is to vac the snapshots and
> store the scores somewhere, but that wouldn't give nearly such a
> seamless result.
>
> if there's no current way to do it, is there some fundamental reason
> why i won't be able to hack fossil to be able to do it?

there's no current way to do it.  it should be easy enough.
you need to move the snapshots into the /archive tree
(some coding required) and then just run snap -a.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-07 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-07  4:36 [9fans] struct problems Christopher Nielsen
2003-05-07  5:34 ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-05-07  5:36   ` Nigel Roles
2003-05-07  5:41     ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-05-08  7:30       ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-09 20:22         ` ron minnich
2003-05-09 21:09           ` Geoff Collyer
2003-05-09 23:29             ` Scott Schwartz
2003-05-10  2:54           ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-10  5:04             ` northern snowfall
2003-05-10  4:11               ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-12  8:56           ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-05-12  9:29             ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-07  7:32 ` northern snowfall
2003-05-07 11:05   ` Bruce Ellis
2003-05-07 13:06     ` northern snowfall
2003-05-07 12:47       ` Bruce Ellis
2003-05-07 13:50         ` northern snowfall
2003-05-07 17:01         ` [9fans] snapshots -> archives rog
2003-05-07 17:02           ` Russ Cox [this message]
2003-05-07 15:47 ` [9fans] acme/sam problem ron minnich
2003-05-07 15:59   ` Russ Cox
2003-05-07 16:32     ` ron minnich
2003-05-07 16:00   ` andrey mirtchovski

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