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

2017-11-22 Thread Gour
On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 19:09:21 -0500 Richard Hipp wrote: > But making Fossil work as a client for Git is the cornerstone of my > plan for world domination! :-) Go for it! > One important reason that many people use Git is because so much OSS > is hosted on GitHub and everybody

Re: [fossil-users] Downloading from Fossil. Was: Fossil-NG Bloat?

2017-11-22 Thread Warren Young
On Nov 22, 2017, at 9:56 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > On 11/22/17, Warren Young wrote: >> >> 1. Visit https://example.com >> 2. Click Timeline (and how would my users know to do that?) >> 3. Click checkin ID. >> 4. Find and click Tarball link >> 5. Unpack

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

2017-11-22 Thread Zoltán Kócsi
On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 21:35:31 -0700 Warren Young wrote: > [...] > 1. Visit https://example.com > 2. Click Timeline (and how would my users know to do that?) > 3. Click checkin ID. > 4. Find and click Tarball link > 5. Unpack the tarball Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration,

[fossil-users] Downloading from Fossil. Was: Fossil-NG Bloat?

2017-11-22 Thread Richard Hipp
On 11/22/17, Warren Young wrote: > > 1. Visit https://example.com > 2. Click Timeline (and how would my users know to do that?) > 3. Click checkin ID. > 4. Find and click Tarball link > 5. Unpack the tarball > > Then they must do all 5 steps again every time there is a new

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

2017-11-22 Thread Warren Young
On Nov 22, 2017, at 7:43 AM, bytevolc...@safe-mail.net wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:42:56 -0700 > Warren Young wrote: > >>> This seems more like a complaint about the user interface. >> >> How does that observation get us to a different solution? > > Because you

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

2017-11-22 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
On 22/11/17 19:09, Richard Hipp wrote: > On 11/22/17, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote: >> I'm dubious over making Fossil a client for >> any other main DVCS out there. > But making Fossil work as a client for Git is the cornerstone of my > plan for world domination! :-)

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil-NG ideas

2017-11-22 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 07:01:31PM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: > > (2) Store true differential manifests. > > I'm thinking that Fossil-NG will probably do like Git and store > separate artifacts holding the content of each directory. (Git calls > these "Tree Objects"). I need to do more

[fossil-users] Redirect capability in test_env page

2017-11-22 Thread bytevolcano
I noticed this curious gem in the test_env web page, which doesn't have any obvious use case, and I cannot find any mentions of "test_env?redirect=..." anywhere in the Fossil code base. Index: src/style.c == --- src/style.c +++

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

2017-11-22 Thread bytevolcano
On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 23:43:07 + Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: > 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

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

2017-11-22 Thread Richard Hipp
On 11/22/17, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote: > I'm dubious over making Fossil a client for > any other main DVCS out there. But making Fossil work as a client for Git is the cornerstone of my plan for world domination! :-) One important reason that many people use Git

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil-NG ideas

2017-11-22 Thread Richard Hipp
On 11/22/17, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > (1) The need to parse all artifacts on clone. Artificates should be > strongly typed, i.e. the system should at the very least distinguish > fully between "content" blobs and "meta data" blobs. Only the latter > have and should be parsed.

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

2017-11-22 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On 22 November 2017 at 23:09, wrote: > On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:30:10 + > Javier Guerra Giraldez 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

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

2017-11-22 Thread bch
On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 3:11 PM bch wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 3:10 PM wrote: > >> On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:30:10 + >> Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: >> > why not? fossil makes for a neat deployment client! yes,

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

2017-11-22 Thread bch
On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 3:10 PM wrote: > On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:30:10 + > Javier Guerra Giraldez 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

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

2017-11-22 Thread bytevolcano
On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:30:10 + Javier Guerra Giraldez 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,

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil-NG ideas

2017-11-22 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 01:33:11PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: > I see a new wiki article: > > https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/wiki?name=Fossil-NG There are two central design flaws in Fossil that affect larger repositories and those are the repos that primarily benefit from

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

2017-11-22 Thread Thomas
On 2017-11-22 22:43, Thomas wrote: That was also my understanding in the beginning but it turned out I was (terribly) wrong. You got to synchronise them manually, and then they're not pulled automatically either. I second this approach. Since Fossil already uses "unversioned" for the current

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

2017-11-22 Thread Thomas
On 2017-11-22 22:27, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote: 2) Allow me to designate any file in the directory structure as unversioned.  The current unversioning model does not work well for me.  It essentially is equivalent to Dropbox. I am working with PharoJS which produces Javascript files

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

2017-11-22 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi Dave, On 22/11/17 15:27, David Mason wrote: > Also as a mere fossil user, I would find it useful if fossil could > respond to a git client and serve files. I use Pharo, which is working > toward integrated support for git, but I'd much rather trust my bits > to Fossil. While the Fossil UI is

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

2017-11-22 Thread David Mason
Also as a mere fossil user, I would find it useful if fossil could respond to a git client and serve files. I use Pharo, which is working toward integrated support for git, but I'd much rather trust my bits to Fossil. While the Fossil UI is nice, I see much less value in using a local Fossil to

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

2017-11-22 Thread 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

[fossil-users] Patch for www/style.wiki

2017-11-22 Thread Johan Kuuse
Hi, A minor patch for the enumeration in www/style.wiki. Included a proposal for a few comments about ANSI C-89. Best regards, Johan Index: www/style.wiki == --- www/style.wiki +++ www/style.wiki @@ -1,63 +1,89 @@ Coding Style

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

2017-11-22 Thread bytevolcano
On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:42:56 -0700 Warren Young wrote: > > This seems more like a complaint about the user interface. > > How does that observation get us to a different solution? Because you then focus on tweaking the UI to make it better, rather than just stuffing