As I also use Git in our company to communicate with Subversion used at work, I liked the fact, that I can work locally, change the commit and comments and if all is finish, I can checkin to the central repository.

Now I intent to use Fossil's privat branches the same way. I intend to make my own checkins locally and if I am finished I send all with a big checkin to my central repository by merging the private branch into a non-private one to get it pushed later on.

So far so good. As I investigated the possibility to implement a feature in Fossil to get private branches pushed as well (but not synced or pulled) for backup purposes, I stumbled over the fact, that private branches lose its privacy attribution, if I deconstruct (with following reconstruction) a repository.

What makes it worse is, that if I look at the reconstructed repository the private branch looks exactly like at the original repository. I cannot determine, it is not private any longer. Therefore it will be cloned and synced as well ...

I will attach a small shell script to show the bug ...

Best regards,
chi.