Re: [fossil-users] CGI and REQUEST_URI

2013-10-18 Thread Ben Summers
On 17 Oct 2013, at 18:40, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: Currently, Fossil requires REQUEST_URI and SCRIPT_NAME at a minimum, and will

[fossil-users] CGI and REQUEST_URI

2013-10-17 Thread Ben Summers
Hello, I've just tried upgrading from fossil 1.25 to fossil 1.27 on my server, which uses Jetty as the CGI server. I just see an error: Bad Request: missing REQUEST_URI and of course, Jetty isn't sending a REQUEST_URI. This environment variable isn't part of the CGI 1.1 spec, so I suppose

Re: [fossil-users] Slight difficulty with symlinks

2011-11-26 Thread Ben Summers
On 25 Nov 2011, at 22:02, Barry Kauler wrote: Hi guys, I am just getting started with Fossil again, after a brief fling back in late 2009. I was very impressed, but my project has lots of symlinks, which is what brought me to a halt before. When I created my woof2 repository, I ticked

Re: [fossil-users] 'mostly static' Fossil on Solaris 8/9+

2011-11-24 Thread Ben Summers
On 22 Nov 2011, at 22:10, Garth Dahlstrom wrote: Hi all, Short Question: Can anyone build a mostly static fossil executable on Solaris 8 or 9 and post it somewhere? Longer Explanation: The only Solaris box that I have capable of building anything is a Solaris 10 box; there are a

Re: [fossil-users] Need to configure an empty repository from command line

2011-11-21 Thread Ben Summers
On 21 Nov 2011, at 01:13, Richard Hipp wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Chris Peachment ch...@ononbb.com wrote: I'm using fossil version 1.20 on Linux for both server and client computers. I want to use fossil command line instructions to initialise an empty repository. I use:

Re: [fossil-users] Forms are cleared in firefox, switch pages

2011-10-03 Thread Ben Summers
On 3 Oct 2011, at 16:20, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 05:05:13PM +0200, Stephan Beal wrote: 2011/10/3 Lluís Batlle i Rossell virik...@gmail.com What would happen if JSON answers had not 'no-store'? Would not be 'no-cache' enough? It should be up to the json

Re: [fossil-users] Forms are cleared in firefox, switch pages

2011-10-03 Thread Ben Summers
On 3 Oct 2011, at 17:37, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 05:13:35PM +0100, Ben Summers wrote: On 3 Oct 2011, at 16:20, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: I think that's exactly what I want. Anyone against? Might be best to also add in 'private' Cache-Control: private

Re: [fossil-users] same user, multiple logins: the problem and a potential solution

2011-09-15 Thread Ben Summers
On 15 Sep 2011, at 00:17, Stephan Beal wrote: As Richard mentioned earlier, the current fossil login mechanism does not tolerate a given user being logged in multiple times (each new login invalidates the previous one). While this almost certainly isn't a real limitation for the HTML

Re: [fossil-users] JSON authentication: meshing with the cookie mechanism

2011-09-14 Thread Ben Summers
On 14 Sep 2011, at 18:26, Stephan Beal wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: No, but for supporting clients which don't have cookies support. e.g. i've written Java HTTP client apps (using a similar API to this one, actually) but the client code

Re: [fossil-users] JSON authentication: meshing with the cookie mechanism

2011-09-14 Thread Ben Summers
On 14 Sep 2011, at 21:36, Richard Hipp wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Joshua Paine jos...@letterblock.com wrote: On 9/14/2011 4:22 PM, Ben Summers wrote: HTTP basic authentication is widely supported in HTTP client libraries, and much less hassle to use than passing tokens

Re: [fossil-users] authentication in JSON: anonymous vs. guest user

2011-09-11 Thread Ben Summers
On 11 Sep 2011, at 05:55, Stephan Beal wrote: In a JSON context, link-following is not an issue. There are no links, as such, in JSON docs - though individual JSON strings might incidentally contain HTML link strings, bots don't generically try to extract HTML text from JSON. Doing

Re: [fossil-users] how to use versionable properties?

2011-09-03 Thread Ben Summers
On 3 Sep 2011, at 14:05, Stephan Beal wrote: Hiya! Per the 'settings' page: Settings marked with (v) are 'versionable' and will be overridden by the contents of files named .fossil-settings/PROPERTY. to use this, do i need to manually add the .fossil-settings files or are they

Re: [fossil-users] Testing for a release

2011-08-27 Thread Ben Summers
On 26 Aug 2011, at 21:31, Matt Welland wrote: I have switched to the new trunk and I think it address the issue I had with symlinks (sent in separate mail). Thanks! The empty-dirs works as advertised but I have an enhancement request. If I specify a multilevel directory and the upper

Re: [fossil-users] New features for merging

2011-08-16 Thread Ben Summers
On 15 Aug 2011, at 21:42, Matt Welland wrote: 2011/8/15 Lluís Batlle i Rossell virik...@gmail.com 3) The file interface offers most version capabilities currently, in fossil. Easier to reach old version, allowing branching, branches of code may need different settings (ignore glob?). I

[fossil-users] New features for merging

2011-08-12 Thread Ben Summers
Richard has kindly indicated he is probably willing to merge the changes in the ben-testing branch if the community has no objections, after being asked for any suggestions on improvements. I'd particularly like input on how these should be documented, and the names chosen for settings and

Re: [fossil-users] New features for merging

2011-08-12 Thread Ben Summers
On 12 Aug 2011, at 15:46, Joshua Paine wrote: On 8/12/2011 6:47 AM, Ben Summers wrote: * Versionable settings +1 This looks like a good way to do this Thank you! :-) * Relative pathname listings I would really like to see this on by default. It's the right way, and the sooner we

Re: [fossil-users] New features for merging

2011-08-12 Thread Ben Summers
On 12 Aug 2011, at 15:54, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/12/2011 11:47 AM, Ben Summers wrote: Richard has kindly indicated he is probably willing to merge the changes in the ben-testing branch if the community has no objections, after being

Re: [fossil-users] New features for merging

2011-08-12 Thread Ben Summers
On 12 Aug 2011, at 16:10, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/12/2011 04:04 PM, Ben Summers wrote: On 12 Aug 2011, at 15:54, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/12/2011 11:47 AM, Ben Summers wrote

Re: [fossil-users] New features for merging

2011-08-12 Thread Ben Summers
On 12 Aug 2011, at 20:44, Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym ala...@snell-pym.org.uk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/12/2011 07:10 PM, Joshua Paine wrote: On 8/12/2011 1:50 PM, altufaltu wrote: 1. Versioned settings: I'd

Re: [fossil-users] X-Frame-Options http header

2011-08-10 Thread Ben Summers
On 9 Aug 2011, at 22:14, Martin S. Weber wrote: So I wanted to use javadoc/scaladoc style documentation and take advantage of fossils embedded documentation -- I put the scaladoc under repo/docco and happily was going to http://server:port/repo/doc/trunk/docco/index.html - but there

Re: [fossil-users] X-Frame-Options http header

2011-08-10 Thread Ben Summers
On 10 Aug 2011, at 15:11, Stephan Beal wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Ben Summers b...@fluffy.co.uk wrote: It sounds like the default should change, and those who really care should adjust their web server. Just FYI: the vast majority of users do not have admin-level rights

Re: [fossil-users] 83c032de7f1 fails to build :( - manifest.uuid is missing

2011-08-04 Thread Ben Summers
On 4 Aug 2011, at 16:35, Stephan Beal wrote: Hi! i just updated to 83c032de7f1 and i'm getting: make: *** No rule to make target `src/../manifest.uuid', needed by `bld/VERSION.h'. Stop. i've done a 'make distclean' and './configure --prefix=$HOME'. is there something else i need

Re: [fossil-users] changes status cmds within sub-directory

2011-07-22 Thread Ben Summers
On 22 Jul 2011, at 12:03, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 01:03:06PM -0400, Martin Gagnon wrote: Le 2011-07-10 à 11:05, Ben Summers b...@fluffy.co.uk a écrit : Answering the question about breaking existing scripts, the output is identical when used at the root. Unless

Re: [fossil-users] changes status cmds within sub-directory

2011-07-22 Thread Ben Summers
On 22 Jul 2011, at 13:09, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:36:33PM +0100, Ben Summers wrote: On 22 Jul 2011, at 12:03, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 01:03:06PM -0400, Martin Gagnon wrote: Le 2011-07-10 à 11:05, Ben Summers b...@fluffy.co.uk

Re: [fossil-users] Avoiding problems with fossil default Makefile (Steve Bennett)

2011-07-21 Thread Ben Summers
On 21 Jul 2011, at 07:42, Steve Bennett wrote: On 20/07/2011, at 7:16 PM, Ben Summers wrote: I'm concerned that typing 'make' on obscure platforms builds subtly broken binaries. For example, on Solaris, it'll build one which truncates your passwords to 8 characters. I propose

[fossil-users] Avoiding problems with fossil default Makefile

2011-07-20 Thread Ben Summers
I'm concerned that typing 'make' on obscure platforms builds subtly broken binaries. For example, on Solaris, it'll build one which truncates your passwords to 8 characters. I propose that we whitelist platforms where the default Makefile is known to work, and force the use of ./configure for

Re: [fossil-users] Avoiding problems with fossil default Makefile

2011-07-20 Thread Ben Summers
On 20 Jul 2011, at 12:54, Stephan Beal wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Ben Summers b...@fluffy.co.uk wrote: I'm concerned that typing 'make' on obscure platforms builds subtly broken binaries. For example, on Solaris, it'll build one which truncates your passwords to 8 characters

Re: [fossil-users] autosetup and GNUmakefile

2011-07-14 Thread Ben Summers
On 13 Jul 2011, Martin Gagnon wrote: There's no a big issue here.. it's just a kind of philosophical question. I've notice that autosetup ./configure will create a GNUmakefile instead of a Makefile. In my OpenBSD system, bsd make doesn't use the GNUMake file when I type make. So if I type:

Re: [fossil-users] autosetup and GNUmakefile

2011-07-14 Thread Ben Summers
On 14 Jul 2011, Stephan Beal wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Ben Summers b...@fluffy.co.uk wrote: If I run the ./configure script, Solaris make (which isn't GNU make) will ignore GNUmakefile and build a broken binary again! The maintainer of GNU Make, Paul Smith, writes

[fossil-users] changes status cmds within sub-directory

2011-07-10 Thread Ben Summers
When working on my project, the current directory is always a sub-directory of the checkout root. Perhaps I'm too used to subversion, but I'm finding the checkout root-relative listing rather confusing. You can't copy and paste a filename to, say, an add command without having to think about

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-14 Thread Ben Summers
On Jun 14, 2011, at 13:45 , Alexander Vladimirov wrote: actually autoconf requires GNU M4, and somehow tends to bring automake and libtool to your system as well. Yeah, that's for the developers. But users just need to run the Bourne shell configure script. As an intermediate

Re: [fossil-users] Testing new features

2011-06-03 Thread Ben Summers
On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:27:16 -0700, Jan Danielsson wrote: On 06/02/11 22:05, Ben Summers wrote: I've created a new branch, ben-testing, with the new features I've been working on. I'm going to be using this version from now on to make sure it's well tested before it's considered

[fossil-users] Testing new features

2011-06-02 Thread Ben Summers
I've created a new branch, ben-testing, with the new features I've been working on. I'm going to be using this version from now on to make sure it's well tested before it's considered for merging into trunk. It adds: * SSL client certificate support * Versionable settings (eg specify

[fossil-users] Testing for versionable settings and empty-dirs

2011-05-28 Thread Ben Summers
Hello, I've tidied up the versionable-settings branch, which also adds an empty-dirs setting. I welcome feedback and testing -- if you can, let me know what you think, and any bugs you find. http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/timeline?r=versionable-settings fossil help settings should tell

Re: [fossil-users] Versionable settings, empty dirs (and symlinks?)

2011-05-22 Thread Ben Summers
On 21 May 2011, at 18:29, Ben Summers wrote: As a first step, I've made an experimental patch to see what the reaction is, and whether the approach is worth tidying up: ... * Versionable settings ... * empty-dirs setting I've created a branch which very roughly implements

[fossil-users] Versionable settings, empty dirs (and symlinks?)

2011-05-21 Thread Ben Summers
Hello, I've been using fossil for a few repos, and I really like the system. I'm about to move my final repo to it, but it's quite a big project and will require a bit of work to fit in with fossil. In particular, it assumes the SCM supports empty directories and symlinks. Also, in my current

Re: [fossil-users] Can't clone repo on Solaris 10 over https

2011-05-19 Thread Ben Summers
On 16 May 2011, at 21:42, Ben Summers wrote: I'm getting login failed errors when attempting to clone a repo over https on Solaris 10, but the same command and repo works fine on Mac OS X. Cloning the repo over http from the Mac works fine. The https server is running Solaris 10

[fossil-users] Can't clone repo on Solaris 10 over https

2011-05-16 Thread Ben Summers
Hello, I'm getting login failed errors when attempting to clone a repo over https on Solaris 10, but the same command and repo works fine on Mac OS X. Cloning the repo over http from the Mac works fine. The https server is running Solaris 10 and the Jetty web server. Sessions below. I'd

[fossil-users] Converting svn to fossil

2011-05-11 Thread Ben Summers
I've written a quick blog post on how to convert simple subversion repositories to fossil as the info didn't seem to be readily out there: http://bens.me.uk/2011/convert-simple-svn-to-fossil I did discover something which might be a bug. If you don't include the --full-tree on the git