Re: [fossil-users] Trolling GitHub for ideas

[Javier Guerra Giraldez]

On 30 November 2017 at 02:21, Jungle Boogie  wrote:
> It's possible to highlight lines (or multiple lines) in fossil, but you
> need to manually edit the URL:
> https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/artifact?ln=45-52=24bd6b806af1782c

this is great,  wish i knew that before!

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Re: [fossil-users] Trolling GitHub for ideas

[Javier Guerra Giraldez]

On 25 November 2017 at 14:17, Richard Hipp  wrote:
> Your suggestions for useful features found in GitHub but missing from
> Fossil, or for pages in GitHub that work especially well and that you
> would like to see replicated in Fossil, are greatly appreciated.

the only github think i've really missed when using fossil for
non-personal projects is the ability to comment on a diff.

I have two different usecases for that:  the first and most obvious is
to open a commit, check the diff (from the previous version) and add
comments about the changes actually done.  if it goes on the right
direction, missing stuff, etc.  depending on context, what i tend to
do is either edit the commiit's comment, or file a ticket with a link
to the commit.  the latter is the most "correct" way, but it's harder
to keep in context.  and neither allows me to reference a specific
point in the code.

the second case is when a branch is nearing completion and becomes a
candidate for merging.  then, i review the diff and should file a
ticket. but it's hard to reference the diff itself.  (yes, copy/paste
the url works but it's tedious and error prone).  again, no way to
link a comment with a specific line.

is there a way to see what a merge would do in diff style?  that alone
replaces most of the functionality of Pull Requests.

ideally, on any diff view (a commit, a diff between two versions, a
merge preview), i'd like to add comments right there, interleaved with
the code. optionally added to a ticket too; so that opening the ticket
would show all related comments, each with a short view of the code
and a link to the full context.

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Re: [fossil-users] Fossil-NG Bloat?

[Javier Guerra Giraldez]

On 22 November 2017 at 23:09,  <bytevolc...@safe-mail.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:30:10 +
> Javier Guerra Giraldez <jav...@guerrag.com> wrote:
>> why not?  fossil makes for a neat deployment client!  yes, it can also
>> be done with just an http client, but still is a nice option to have.
>
> Because people do not use compilers on such systems, but rather, they
> use other systems that can compile for the target system.

i _have_ used fossil running in a very small MIPS system.  as
mentioned, it's really nice to pull versioned stuff like
configurations, HTML, binary blobs.  yes, i used gcc to compile it,
but what was small two years ago now might be in the same boat as
that.



>> but i haven't seen any reason to promote a language switch.   nice as
>> they are, C11 features make only easier development; not better code,
>> much less any performance improvement or any user-visible advantage.
>
> I am not suggesting a language switch (C11 is still C) and I'm also
> not suggesting just use C11 for the sake of it. Rather, I am suggesing
> using modern C features to clean up the code and allow the compiler to
> optimise it better. For example, postponed variable declarations,
> inline functions, stdint.h definitions, etc. This isn't even C11 stuff,
> it's all basic C99 functionality which has been around for 18 years.

all those features have zero impact on the generated machine code.


> What sort of weird targets does SQLite run on which require the use of
> a very old (or broken) compiler that can't handle any C99 features?

MS Visual Studio

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Re: [fossil-users] Fossil-NG Bloat?

[Javier Guerra Giraldez]

On 22 November 2017 at 14:43,   wrote:
> Nobody in their right mind would even consider Fossil (with its
> in-built web server, wiki, and bugtracker) to run on such a system, so
> why bother coding for it?

why not?  fossil makes for a neat deployment client!  yes, it can also
be done with just an http client, but still is a nice option to have.

but i haven't seen any reason to promote a language switch.   nice as
they are, C11 features make only easier development; not better code,
much less any performance improvement or any user-visible advantage.

SQLite _is_ used on lots of weird targets, and there's much shared
code, and most importantly, shared code style.  introducing an
artificial split between them doesn't seem a good use of developer
time.

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Re: [fossil-users] Content-Security-Policy Was: Fossil README symlink

[Javier Guerra Giraldez]

On 18 October 2017 at 15:32, Stephan Beal  wrote:
> LOL. Turing and his silly Test - that's why we can't have nice things.

nitpicking: it's not about the test, but about the completeness (AKA
the halting problem)

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Re: [fossil-users] Shameless self-promotion

[Javier Guerra Giraldez]

On 15 September 2017 at 15:26, Olivier R.  wrote:
> I also wonder what’s the best way to include a one-time patch without giving
> rights to the repository.

one word: bundles

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Re: [fossil-users] How to transfer/move/upload local repository to chiselapp.com

[Javier Guerra Giraldez]

On 15 May 2017 at 21:02, The Tick  wrote:
> That was exactly what I was doing -- after clicking 'Create Repository' my
> focus was on the form and I was totally oblivious to the additional options
> that had appeared.


just for the record, in the "create repository" form, there's an
"Override project code" option, with a short explanation "(Optional,
but may be needed if pushing an already created repo to Chisel.)"
that allows that option to work.  just copy there the existing
project's code and it will accept your push.


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Re: [fossil-users] Longest gap between check-ins

[Javier Guerra Giraldez]

On 20 February 2017 at 15:39, Richard Hipp  wrote:
> I don't know if the above has any practical use for most people (or I
> would make it a new URI on the Fossil webserver) but it seems like fun
> and so I thought I would share.


sure!, it serves to document sleep patterns without having to strap an
IoT (aka DDOS source) device! :-)

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Re: [fossil-users] Using Fossil SCM with Master Repositories held on a Flash Drive ?

[Javier Guerra Giraldez]

On 20 January 2017 at 13:08, Richard Hipp  wrote:
> But have you considered doing it using your network?  Are all of your
> machines at least intermittently connected to a network?
>
> So on some central machine that is usually accessible to the others,
> put all of your master repositories in a folder named (for example)
> C:\fossils.


chiselapp.com offers private repositories.

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