Re: [fossil-users] remote check in

2016-10-24 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 24, 2016, at 2:59 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > There is an experimental (?) feature of Fossil allowing it to operate as a > FUSE filesystem. I’ve just peeked into the code for that, and it appears the Fossil fusefs feature is read-only. If someone were to make this

Re: [fossil-users] remote check in

2016-10-24 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 24, 2016, at 2:32 PM, Adam Jensen wrote: > > On 10/24/2016 03:07 PM, Warren Young wrote: >> I don’t know that Fossil is all that close to any other software >> system you’ve likely used before. > > Isn't it a file (version) management system based on an embedded

Re: [fossil-users] remote check in

2016-10-24 Thread Adam Jensen
On 10/24/2016 03:07 PM, Warren Young wrote: > I don’t know that Fossil is all that close to any other software > system you’ve likely used before. Isn't it a file (version) management system based on an embedded database? On 10/23/2016 06:13 PM, Scott Doctor wrote: > My current workflow uses a

Re: [fossil-users] remote check in

2016-10-24 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 24, 2016, at 11:33 AM, Scott Doctor wrote: > > The issues I initially had with fossil were due to a misunderstanding about > how fossil works. An issue is that clicking the help button in the fossil UI > gives a wall of commands. If the repository’s /help URL is

Re: [fossil-users] remote check in

2016-10-24 Thread Adam Jensen
On 10/24/2016 01:33 PM, Scott Doctor wrote: [snip] > I think the documentation should group the most commonly used commands > from the master list. Maybe make several groups presented in most-used > to rarely-used groupings. A primer should avoid permuting the possible > operations until later (it

Re: [fossil-users] remote check in

2016-10-24 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Scott Doctor on Mon, 24 Oct 2016 10:33:08 -0700: > Regarding my command line comment. Originally I misinterpreted how > fossil works. Thank you for being candid about what made your misunderstand how Fossil actually works. This is valuable information: > The documentation needs

Re: [fossil-users] remote check in

2016-10-24 Thread Scott Doctor
Just to clear up some confusion. The issues I initially had with fossil were due to a misunderstanding about how fossil works. An issue is that clicking the help button in the fossil UI gives a wall of commands. That is fine if you already understand the concept of the base operations and just

Re: [fossil-users] remote check in

2016-10-23 Thread Adam Jensen
On 10/23/2016 06:13 PM, Scott Doctor wrote: > > On 10/23/2016 13:59, Artur Shepilko wrote: >> It's not clear what type of project the OP is trying to setup, whether >> it's a programming-related project, or general document-repo type. >> > I am doing research where we may do a dozen iterations a

Re: [fossil-users] remote check in

2016-10-23 Thread Scott Doctor
On 10/23/2016 13:59, Artur Shepilko wrote: It's not clear what type of project the OP is trying to setup, whether it's a programming-related project, or general document-repo type. I am doing research where we may do a dozen iterations a day generating about 10-100MB of files per iteration.

Re: [fossil-users] remote check in

2016-10-23 Thread Ron W
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 8:00 AM, wrote: > > From: "K. Fossil user" > Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 00:51:40 + (UTC) > > I was wondering if it is possible to do EVERYTHING [Fossil related of > course] in a browser. > I guess

Re: [fossil-users] remote check in

2016-10-23 Thread Artur Shepilko
It's not clear what type of project the OP is trying to setup, whether it's a programming-related project, or general document-repo type. >From personal experience, I once was facing the same question to assess Fossil "general" viability. For this almost abstract task, Jim Schimpf's pdf book

Re: [fossil-users] remote check in

2016-10-23 Thread Ron W
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 8:00 AM, wrote: > > From: Andy Bradford > Date: 22 Oct 2016 20:48:42 -0600 > > Thus said Scott Doctor on Sat, 22 Oct 2016 15:40:33 -0700: > > > The problem I am having is how to add files, do check-ins

Re: [fossil-users] remote check in

2016-10-23 Thread Steven Gawroriski
On 22 Oct 2016 20:48:42 -0600 "Andy Bradford" wrote: > I believe I have seen someone announce on this list a wrapper UI for > the Fossil commands. Maybe search the archives? I believe it is called Fuel , as a pun on Fossil.

Re: [fossil-users] remote check in

2016-10-22 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Scott Doctor on Sat, 22 Oct 2016 15:40:33 -0700: > The problem I am having is how to add files, do check-ins and such via > the UI, mostly regarding doing it remotely without command line > access. It isn't possible to commit files to the repository using the Fossil UI. This is

Re: [fossil-users] remote check in

2016-10-22 Thread Shal Farley
Scott, The problem I am having is how to add files, do check-ins and such via the UI, mostly regarding doing it remotely without command line access. I'm far from an expert user of fossil, but I believe the normal setup is to have a local copy of the repository, where command line access is

Re: [fossil-users] remote check in

2016-10-22 Thread Shal Farley
K, It would be helpful to the other members of this list if you would not chime in with provocative non-sequiturs when you don't know the answer. Just my humble opinion. Shal (see, you trolled me out of my lurking state) -- Shal Farley Cheshire Engineering Corporation

Re: [fossil-users] remote check in

2016-10-22 Thread K. Fossil user
Hi, >« So do people who have a check-in or a new file email the file to the administrator and they add/check-in, or do those people have command line access? » 1/ People don't really use Fossil : they do use git/mercurial/etc. 2/ Those who use Fossil use command line most of them. 3/ The purpose