[fossil-users] Some more default settings for a UI user

2016-04-23 Thread Fran
add option to display unified or sidebyside patch by default too Enviado con Aquamail para Android http://www.aqua-mail.com Hi, it would be nice to have some default settings definable for a user: • Timeline view: - Type of entries (e.g. only check-ins) - Max. - With/Without

Re: [fossil-users] Search edit field placement

2016-04-23 Thread Marko Käning
OK, thanks to John I learnt in my other thread [1] that this can be achieved via Admin/Skins/Headers. [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/msg22970.html ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org

Re: [fossil-users] Some more default settings for a UI user

2016-04-23 Thread Marko Käning
Hi John, On 24 Apr 2016, at 01:45 , John P. Rouillard wrote: > You're missing what he is saying. He is saying change the Timeline > (/timeline) link in the menu. indeed, not hard to miss it. :) I couldn’t figure out where I could change exactly those links. Now I see

Re: [fossil-users] Some more default settings for a UI user

2016-04-23 Thread John P. Rouillard
In message , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Marko_K=E4ning?= writes: > >On 24 Apr 2016, at 01:07 , Stephan Beal wrote: > >> You need to edit the links in the menus to add parameters for the >> settings you want. e.g. max is set using n=123.

Re: [fossil-users] Some more default settings for a UI user

2016-04-23 Thread Steve Schow
On Apr 23, 2016, at 4:19 PM, Marko Käning wrote: > Hi, > > it would be nice to have some default settings definable for a user: > > • Timeline view: > - Type of entries (e.g. only check-ins) > - Max. > - With/Without Files > > • Files view: > -

Re: [fossil-users] Code blocks with more vertical space possible?

2016-04-23 Thread Steve Schow
I’m just getting up to speed with fossil myself, but my impression is that you will get the most mileage if you use raw HTML to format your wiki pages rather than mark down or the fossilwiki format, whatever that is. I have also gotten some strange results using the WYSIWYG editor. Myself I

Re: [fossil-users] Some more default settings for a UI user

2016-04-23 Thread Marko Käning
On 24 Apr 2016, at 01:07 , Stephan Beal wrote: > You need to edit the links in the menus to add parameters for the settings > you want. e.g. max is set using n=123. > I know that I can do that, in principle, BUT next time I click the /timeline menu link I am back to

Re: [fossil-users] Some more default settings for a UI user

2016-04-23 Thread Stephan Beal
You need to edit the links in the menus to add parameters for the settings you want. e.g. max is set using n=123. - stephan (Sent from a mobile device, possibly from bed. Please excuse brevity, typos, and top-posting.) On Apr 24, 2016 01:02, "Marko Käning" wrote:

Re: [fossil-users] Some more default settings for a UI user

2016-04-23 Thread Marko Käning
Perhaps it is important to note that I am running the current stable version 1.34, which I had posted only in my 1st post to the list today: > I’ve installed fossil’s version 1.34 using MacPorts on OSX. The web UI shows > this version string: > > Fossil version [62dcb00e68] 2015-11-02

Re: [fossil-users] Some more default settings for a UI user

2016-04-23 Thread Marko Käning
My /setup_timeline page gives me these options: Allow block-markup in timeline Plaintext comments on timelines Use Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) Per-Item Time Format Show version differences by default Max timeline comment length which do not include the 3 additional ones I am seeking

Re: [fossil-users] Some more default settings for a UI user

2016-04-23 Thread Marko Käning
Hi Stephan, On 24 Apr 2016, at 00:49 , Stephan Beal wrote: > All 3 of those options are there, but i am in bed and won't be up for > (ideally) another 10 hours, so i am hoping someone else will point them out > ;). Help is not in the default menu because it is, in

Re: [fossil-users] Some more default settings for a UI user

2016-04-23 Thread Stephan Beal
All 3 of those options are there, but i am in bed and won't be up for (ideally) another 10 hours, so i am hoping someone else will point them out ;). Help is not in the default menu because it is, in practice, rarely used. Feel free to add it to yours. - stephan (Sent from a mobile device,

Re: [fossil-users] Some more default settings for a UI user

2016-04-23 Thread Marko Käning
On 24 Apr 2016, at 00:25 , Stephan Beal wrote: > Ps: see the /help page for the various /timeline options. > Well, this allows a couple of settings, yes, but not the three I asked for: > • Timeline view: > - Type of entries (e.g. only check-ins) > - Max. >

Re: [fossil-users] Some more default settings for a UI user

2016-04-23 Thread Marko Käning
Hi Sephan, On 24 Apr 2016, at 00:23 , Stephan Beal wrote: > You can achieve all of that by changing the appropriate menu entries/links > via the setup page. If > I am puzzled, as I can’t seem to find the correct setup page which makes the wiki’s menu links available

Re: [fossil-users] Some more default settings for a UI user

2016-04-23 Thread Stephan Beal
Ps: see the /help page for the various /timeline options. - stephan (Sent from a mobile device, possibly from bed. Please excuse brevity, typos, and top-posting.) On Apr 24, 2016 00:23, "Stephan Beal" wrote: > You can achieve all of that by changing the appropriate

Re: [fossil-users] Some more default settings for a UI user

2016-04-23 Thread Stephan Beal
You can achieve all of that by changing the appropriate menu entries/links via the setup page. If - stephan (Sent from a mobile device, possibly from bed. Please excuse brevity, typos, and top-posting.) On Apr 24, 2016 00:19, "Marko Käning" wrote: > Hi, > > it

[fossil-users] Some more default settings for a UI user

2016-04-23 Thread Marko Käning
Hi, it would be nice to have some default settings definable for a user: • Timeline view: - Type of entries (e.g. only check-ins) - Max. - With/Without Files • Files view: - would be nice to be able to set it e.g. by default to tree-view. This would be probably ideally

[fossil-users] Code blocks with more vertical space possible?

2016-04-23 Thread Marko Käning
Hi, is it possible to define code-blocks which 1) have extra vertical space for better separation in paragraphs or stg like list items? 2) have perhaps even a frame around them? I guess this all could be achieved by some CSS magic, but I think it would be nice to have that as

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil's ticket edit dialog page seems broken, since the ticket's comment is not displayed at all

2016-04-23 Thread Marko Käning
On 23 Apr 2016, at 23:39 , Stephan Beal wrote: > It can only amend new info to a ticket, not replace anything. OK, that makes sense, yes. Thanks for the pointer! I see now that it also says “Append Remark with format” in the edit dialog page for the field which I

[fossil-users] Some weird font sizes in wiki on OSX

2016-04-23 Thread Marko Käning
Hi devs, why do the font sizes in fossil's wiki rendering (for code snippets) aren't really nicely matching the text flow? If I want to render a code snippet with apostrophes like `this snippet`, then the font used for text “this snippet” would be only 75% the size I’d expect it to have to

[fossil-users] Search edit field placement

2016-04-23 Thread Marko Käning
Hi devs, if the search feature is enabled the [Wiki](/wiki) and [Tickets](/ticket) views show at first the search edit field instead of the list of available wiki/ticket overview pages, which would make more sense - so I believe... One could also think about having the search edit field together

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil's ticket edit dialog page seems broken, since the ticket's comment is not displayed at all

2016-04-23 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Marko Käning wrote: > For some reason fossil's ticket edit dialog page > (/tktedit?name=ARTIFACTID) > seems broken, as it doesn't show the actual ticket comment which had been > entered previously by its creator. > > However,

[fossil-users] Fossil's ticket edit dialog page seems broken, since the ticket's comment is not displayed at all

2016-04-23 Thread Marko Käning
Hi folks, --- >First of all< I want to say that I am delighted with this SCM system, after having used CVS, SVN, Mercurial and Git for quite some time... I’ve liked to use Mercurial with the b extension to keep my bugs in source control together with the code... ... but

Re: [fossil-users] How to file a ticket on fossil-scm.org?

2016-04-23 Thread Marko Käning
Hi Richard, ok, fair enough, I will use the mailing list then. Thanks!! Greets, Marko ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users

Re: [fossil-users] How to file a ticket on fossil-scm.org?

2016-04-23 Thread Richard Hipp
On 4/23/16, Marko Käning wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to fossil and thought that I could file a ticket at fossil’s ticket > tracker. > > I logged on as “anonymous”, as suggested by the wiki, but there is no button > for creating a new ticket. > > What should I do

[fossil-users] How to file a ticket on fossil-scm.org?

2016-04-23 Thread Marko Käning
Hi, I am new to fossil and thought that I could file a ticket at fossil’s ticket tracker. I logged on as “anonymous”, as suggested by the wiki, but there is no button for creating a new ticket. What should I do instead? Greets, Marko ___

Re: [fossil-users] Noob usage questions

2016-04-23 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Steve Schow on Fri, 22 Apr 2016 23:04:57 -0600: > 1 - step#4 is fine because dev is working on a branch. do you have any > mechanisms in place to prevent them from accidentally committing a > file on the trunk instead of the branch at this stage of the workflow? There is nothing

Re: [fossil-users] Version control as backup. Was: Noob usage questions

2016-04-23 Thread Scott Robison
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Steve Schow wrote: > it sounds to me like your repos are backed up well as long as they are all > completely sync’d with each other on a regular basis and so long as they > are located on different HDD volumes and at least one copy offsite from

Re: [fossil-users] Version control as backup. Was: Noob usage questions

2016-04-23 Thread Steve Schow
it sounds to me like your repos are backed up well as long as they are all completely sync’d with each other on a regular basis and so long as they are located on different HDD volumes and at least one copy offsite from one of the other copies. Your versioning history is very well backed up

[fossil-users] Version control as backup. Was: Noob usage questions

2016-04-23 Thread Richard Hipp
On 4/23/16, Steve Schow wrote: > > version control is definitely not a backup ... > Why not? What am I missing? For Fossil and for SQLite, our "backup" is 3 copies of the repositories for each project, running in three different datacenters, using two separate providers, plus

Re: [fossil-users] Noob usage questions

2016-04-23 Thread Steve Schow
On Apr 23, 2016, at 12:14 AM, Scott Robison wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 12:06 AM, Steve Schow wrote: > > does that change the workspace implicitly to be checked out to that branch > instead of the trunk? Does the workspace then become tied

Re: [fossil-users] Noob usage questions

2016-04-23 Thread Steve Schow
On Apr 23, 2016, at 12:33 AM, Ron W wrote: > > Also, for us, almost all tickets are entered through the web interface. > Although Fossil's hooks feature works with tickets as well as with commits, > there is no mechanism to create a new branch from a hook script. > I

Re: [fossil-users] Noob usage questions

2016-04-23 Thread Steve Schow
On Apr 23, 2016, at 12:44 AM, Ron W wrote: > > Another potential problem with private branches: Because they don't get > pushed, you loose the safety net of having them replicated in another > (preferably remote) repo. Not only the safety net, but also the easy ability

Re: [fossil-users] Noob usage questions

2016-04-23 Thread Ron W
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:45 PM, Arnel wrote: > > > Doesn't working on a branch marked private and merging it later (upon > approval) > essentially provide the benefits of "squashing" the commits? The only > difference > would be the branch commits themselves will not be

Re: [fossil-users] Noob usage questions

2016-04-23 Thread Ron W
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 2:06 AM, Steve Schow wrote: > > > if so, not a big deal then, just have to use wrapper scripts to make sure > to follow your work flow, always create a new branch on the first commit > for any ticket. I will probably use a cookie or something to make

Re: [fossil-users] Noob usage questions

2016-04-23 Thread Ron W
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 1:04 AM, Steve Schow wrote: > > Nice work flow… > Thanks. It is simplified to highlight the key parts. > In the above workflow, here are my questions: > > 1 - step#4 is fine because dev is working on a branch. do you have any > mechanisms in place to

Re: [fossil-users] Noob usage questions

2016-04-23 Thread Scott Robison
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 12:06 AM, Steve Schow wrote: > > On Apr 22, 2016, at 11:34 PM, Ron W wrote: > > My team's wrapper for Fossil does the following (from memory, so might not > be exactly right): > > On "branch new": >fossil commit --allow-empty

Re: [fossil-users] Noob usage questions

2016-04-23 Thread Steve Schow
On Apr 22, 2016, at 11:34 PM, Ron W wrote: > My team's wrapper for Fossil does the following (from memory, so might not be > exactly right): > > On "branch new": >fossil commit --allow-empty --branch $bname -m "$comment (Issue [$issue])" >fossil tag add