[fossil-users] comparison with Git

2012-09-13 Thread Russ Paielli
I recall reading somewhere (can't seem to find it at the moment) that fossil is a serverless, zero-administration program. Is that true of git also? Thanks. --Russ P. -- http://RussP.us ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org

Re: [fossil-users] comparison with Git

2012-09-13 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:13:43 -0700 Russ Paielli russ.paie...@gmail.com wrote: I recall reading somewhere (can't seem to find it at the moment) that fossil is a serverless, zero-administration program. Is that true of git also? Thanks. Depends on how you define serverless. Any distributed SCM

Re: [fossil-users] comparison with Git

2012-09-13 Thread Richard Hipp
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Russ Paielli russ.paie...@gmail.comwrote: I recall reading somewhere (can't seem to find it at the moment) that fossil is a serverless, zero-administration program. Is that true of git also? Thanks. We make that claim about the SQLite database engine. See

[fossil-users] new files or modified files don't get updated on the remote server file system

2012-09-13 Thread Tommaso D'Argenio
Hi, I'm quite new to fossil and have some experience only with subversion. I've setup a little test system to check out if I can implement fossil into our workflow. I've a windows 2003 server where I've created a repository folder and I've have all the development files in a separate folder on

Re: [fossil-users] new files or modified files don't get updated on the remote server file system

2012-09-13 Thread Richard Hipp
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Tommaso D'Argenio ping...@gmail.comwrote: Problem is that once I go on the server, while the repository file is updated (check date/time above) the actual text file in the development folder is untouched and still the original version when it was created in

Re: [fossil-users] new files or modified files don't get updated on the remote server file system

2012-09-13 Thread Tommaso D'Argenio
Hi Richard, thanks for your fast response. I got that, but then there is something I don't quite understand. In a normal scenario I would have a development server (call it remote machine), on which I have one repository for each of the application the team develops. Each repository have

Re: [fossil-users] new files or modified files don't get updated on the remote server file system

2012-09-13 Thread Petr Man
Hello Tommaso, For instance, I have a repository with SVN on the remote machine. I make some changes on my local repository (after the update done locally to incorporate changes made by other), and using TortoiseSVN I commit the changes and solve eventual conflicts with a merge. When this is

Re: [fossil-users] new files or modified files don't get updated on the remote server file system

2012-09-13 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:20:12 +0100 Tommaso D'Argenio ping...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Now think at this as a web development team, so we have a web application which doesn't need to be build or anything like that. The dev team create a new patch on their local repository and commit it to the

Re: [fossil-users] new files or modified files don't get updated on the remote server file system

2012-09-13 Thread Tommaso D'Argenio
Hi, I don't maintain the SVN server so I can't comment on the way it's configured. My workflow is quite simple: -Create a folder on my laptop -Right click on the folder Tortoise Checkout and enter the repository URL -at this point all files get downloaded -modify few things -Right click on the

Re: [fossil-users] new files or modified files don't get updated on the remote server file system

2012-09-13 Thread Richard Hipp
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Tommaso D'Argenio ping...@gmail.comwrote: The dev guy doesn't have the permission to log on the remote machine and manually run a fossil update, neither I can think of a process on the remote machine that run the fossil update command every second. If it

Re: [fossil-users] Support for Win9x?

2012-09-13 Thread Jan Danielsson
On 09/13/12 16:02, Richard Hipp wrote: Is there any reason to try to keep Fossil working on windows9x? I don't think much Win9x development goes on today. But even if I'm wrong, I would guess that the intersection between the sets Win9X developers and Fossil users is roughly empty. Tag

Re: [fossil-users] Support for Win9x?

2012-09-13 Thread Scott Robison
Even if someone is still supporting Win9X, it does not necessarily follow that they are doing anything more that testing binaries in that environment. I would not be heartbroken if such support were removed. SDR On Sep 13, 2012 8:25 AM, Jan Danielsson jan.m.daniels...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [fossil-users] new files or modified files don't get updated on the remote server file system

2012-09-13 Thread Richard Hipp
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Tommaso D'Argenio ping...@gmail.comwrote: just to add to this. I've set the remote-url with the correct server url and a user with developer permissions (at later stage I've also added admin and setup permissions, thinking that developer wasn't enough but no

Re: [fossil-users] Support for Win9x?

2012-09-13 Thread Steve Landers
On 13/09/2012, at 9:02 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: Is there any reason to try to keep Fossil working on windows9x? Only if you are a technonecrophiliac Steve ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org

Re: [fossil-users] new files or modified files don't get updated on the remote server file system

2012-09-13 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:04:58 +0100 Tommaso D'Argenio ping...@gmail.com wrote: By the way I've also checked the autosync setting and it is set to ON, on both machines. Reading from the documentation [...] just to add to this. I've set the remote-url with the correct server url and a user

Re: [fossil-users] new files or modified files don't get updated on the remote server file system

2012-09-13 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:57:03 +0100 Tommaso D'Argenio ping...@gmail.com wrote: I don't maintain the SVN server so I can't comment on the way it's configured. That's probably important -- see below. My workflow is quite simple: [...] -Right click on the folder Tortoise Commit and enter

[fossil-users] trouble handling text files from SQL Server 2012

2012-09-13 Thread Kevin Greiner
I'm using fossil 1.23 on Windows 7. I'm attempting to store text files generated by Microsoft SQL Server 2012 in fossil so I can easily track their changes over time. The problem is that fossil thinks these generated text files are binary data which prevents me from viewing the files via the web

Re: [fossil-users] trouble handling text files from SQL Server 2012

2012-09-13 Thread Richard Hipp
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Kevin Greiner grein...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using fossil 1.23 on Windows 7. I'm attempting to store text files generated by Microsoft SQL Server 2012 in fossil so I can easily track their changes over time. The problem is that fossil thinks these generated

Re: [fossil-users] trouble handling text files from SQL Server 2012

2012-09-13 Thread Kevin Greiner
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: The file itself appears to be in utf16le. The diff facilities in Fossil currently only know how to deal with utf8. Thanks, that was helpful. Turns out I was piping the output through another utility (powershell) that was

[fossil-users] Fossil enhancement idea. Was: trouble handling text files from SQL Server 2012

2012-09-13 Thread Richard Hipp
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Kevin Greiner grein...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using fossil 1.23 on Windows 7. I'm attempting to store text files generated by Microsoft SQL Server 2012 in fossil so I can easily track their

Re: [fossil-users] trouble handling text files from SQL Server 2012

2012-09-13 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 03:43:16PM -0400, Kevin Greiner wrote: I'm using fossil 1.23 on Windows 7. I'm attempting to store text files generated by Microsoft SQL Server 2012 in fossil so I can easily track their changes over time. The problem is that fossil thinks these generated text files

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil enhancement idea. Was: trouble handling text files from SQL Server 2012

2012-09-13 Thread Scott Robison
I'd like to assist with that contribution. Assuming someone hasn't already done it by the time I click send. :) SDR On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:43 PM,

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil enhancement idea. Was: trouble handling text files from SQL Server 2012

2012-09-13 Thread Martin Gagnon
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Kevin Greiner grein...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using fossil 1.23 on Windows 7. I'm attempting to store text files

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil enhancement idea. Was: trouble handling text files from SQL Server 2012

2012-09-13 Thread David Given
On 13/09/12 21:08, Richard Hipp wrote: [...] Basically, we need a routine that converts an in-memory buffer from UTF16 to UTF8, and leaves anything that isn't UTF16 unchanged. Then we need to call that routine in a few strategic places inside of Fossil Could you clarify what you mean by

Re: [fossil-users] comparison with Git

2012-09-13 Thread Russ Paielli
OK, so apparently I misunderstood in thinking that the serverless, zero-administration claim applies to Fossil. Thanks for the clarification. If it were true, and if it distinguished Fossil from Git, I would have used it in my advocacy of Fossil. I am sold on the idea that Fossil is superior to

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil enhancement idea. Was: trouble handling text files from SQL Server 2012

2012-09-13 Thread Scott Robison
I assumed (dangerous though it may be) that leaves anything that isn't UTF-16 unchanged meant don't convert any buffer to UTF-8 if the origination buffer is not UTF-16. SDR On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 5:04 PM, David Given d...@cowlark.com wrote: On 13/09/12 21:08, Richard Hipp wrote: [...]

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil enhancement idea. Was: trouble handling text files from SQL Server 2012

2012-09-13 Thread Richard Hipp
You assume correctly. The use of iconv won't do, though, since everything also needs to work on Unix. There are small, portable conversion routines in SQLite that you can copy. D. Richard Hipp - d...@sqlite.org Sent from phone - pardon brevity On Sep 13, 2012 7:44 PM, Scott Robison

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil enhancement idea. Was: trouble handling text files from SQL Server 2012

2012-09-13 Thread Scott Robison
So I've spent some time writing a small and I think portable routine to detect if a buffer is a valid UTF-16 (either little or big endian). It rejects buffers if they contain an odd number of bytes or contain any of the 66 non-character code-points or have invalid surrogate usage. While this seems