Re: [fossil-users] Why do we need a fossil hosting service?

2013-04-02 Thread Matt Welland
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Steve Havelka yo...@q7.com wrote: On 03/30/2013 02:59 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Steve Havelka yo...@q7.com wrote: You're saying that Fossil is intended to be used by few people, or that Fossil is intended not to have a user

[fossil-users] ssh fails on second sync when ?shell=/bin/bash option used

2013-04-01 Thread Matt Welland
The initial sync works (it properly uses the shell=/bin/sh) but subsequent sync's fail as the shell then reverts to fossil. Even if I set the url in the fossil database to include the shell=/bin/sh it still gets ignored. To work around this I've compiled my own version of fossil with the remote

Re: [fossil-users] Chiselapp.com shutting down

2013-03-29 Thread Matt Welland
One thing that would be really nice IMHO would be to provide a mechanism to derive a repo from an existing one and have that connection clear and visible on the site. This would have to be optional. Having support for this inside a single fossil would be ideal from my perspective but I understand

Re: [fossil-users] Why do we need a fossil hosting service?

2013-03-29 Thread Matt Welland
for what it's worth as compared to github you are missing: Ability to browse and discover projects based on searches, tags and developer. Ability for loosely coupled collaboration (i.e. fork). Community and the momentum that can come with it. Project life beyond the initial developer. On

Re: [fossil-users] ssh transport and tcsh

2013-02-25 Thread Matt Welland
/fossilshell=/usr/bin/bash' Everything after the seems not to be stored by fossil. For now I use the fossil I compiled where I forced the shell. Can the remote-url storage escape the or is there an alternate character that can be used? On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com

[fossil-users] Is it possible to increase the sqlite timeout for fossil?

2013-02-21 Thread Matt Welland
We are getting a *lot* of collisions in heavy use repos. Rather than confusing sync errors I'd like it if fossil just waited longer for the repo to come available. I think setting a 10 second timeout on sqlite would make a huge difference here. Can this be done? Thanks.

Re: [fossil-users] Is it possible to increase the sqlite timeout for fossil?

2013-02-21 Thread Matt Welland
at 8:36 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: We are getting a *lot* of collisions in heavy use repos. Rather than confusing sync errors I'd like it if fossil just waited longer for the repo to come available. I think

Re: [fossil-users] Is it possible to increase the sqlite timeout for fossil?

2013-02-21 Thread Matt Welland
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: Database Stats: 209478 pages, 1024 bytes/page, 113 free pages, UTF-8, delete mode That delete mode notation on the end denotes the problem. You

Re: [fossil-users] ssh transport and tcsh

2013-02-06 Thread Matt Welland
is in the call to execl twice. The second call seems to be running zCmd as a comand. Is this to deal with shell escaping hell? execl(/bin/sh, /bin/sh, -c, zCmd, (char*)0); On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:56 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:48:01 +0100, Matt Welland

Re: [fossil-users] ssh transport and tcsh

2013-02-06 Thread Matt Welland
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm... your point about the remote login is curious. I assumed that fossil was doing something like this (I'm using faux code here): inport

Re: [fossil-users] ssh transport and tcsh

2013-02-06 Thread Matt Welland
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote

Re: [fossil-users] ssh transport and tcsh

2013-02-06 Thread Matt Welland
I got some help from a co-worker to test this fix. He ran 1000's of clones with bash as a login shell and with tcsh as a login shell with zero problems. Can a couple other folks test it and can it then get into the official release (assuming no problems found)? It would be a real boon for me and

Re: [fossil-users] ssh transport and tcsh

2013-02-06 Thread Matt Welland
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: I got some help from a co-worker to test this fix. He ran 1000's of clones with bash as a login shell and with tcsh as a login shell with zero

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Matt Welland
I haven't read all of the messages in this thread so please pardon the top post and possible useless or redundant info but my lazy and oh so very wrong method of grepping an entire fossil repo is to use fossil export and some grepping. No need to put the whole expanded repo on disk. First find

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Matt Welland
Sorry, didn't paste in the second grep: fsl export | grep -A 10 -B 10 :1906 On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't read all of the messages in this thread so please pardon the top post and possible useless or redundant info but my lazy and oh so

Re: [fossil-users] sqlite errors after reinstalling fossil

2013-01-17 Thread Matt Welland
This problem doesn't look much like an issue with fossil itself. Perhaps trying a filesystem test suite would give you some hints as to the root cause? Google provided this link that might be a good starting point: http://nfsv4.bullopensource.org/doc/testing_tools.php Do things such as a kernel

Re: [fossil-users] Unintentional fork/race condition

2013-01-13 Thread Matt Welland
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: Curious response. Did you intend to be insulting? I'm working with a bunch

Re: [fossil-users] Unintentional fork/race condition

2013-01-13 Thread Matt Welland
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: http://chronicleoutdoors.com/wp-content/gallery/cougar-photo/mountainlion.jpg I'll see what I can do about enhancing Fossil with an approaching puma

[fossil-users] Unintentional fork/race condition

2013-01-12 Thread Matt Welland
This is with regards to the problem described here: http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/pipermail/fossil-users/2008-February/60.html We are seeing on the order of 3-5 of these a year in our heaviest hit repos. While this may seem like no big deal the fact that it is so silent is quite

Re: [fossil-users] Unintentional fork/race condition

2013-01-12 Thread Matt Welland
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: This is with regards to the problem described here: http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/pipermail/fossil-users/2008-February/60.html We

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2013-01-07 Thread Matt Welland
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Alaric Snell-Pym ala...@snell-pym.org.ukwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/2013 05:12 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: Might that be a useful approach for Fossil, too? If I understand you correctly, I believe this is what happens if

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-29 Thread Matt Welland
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.namewrote: (top post, due to the complexity of the previous post) I've found many git-fans that are completely ashamed of how they develop. And they would never make public how they commit things (how they use the VCS), so

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil scalability

2012-12-21 Thread Matt Welland
Some time ago I did experiments with large numbers of commits and large amounts of data and I thought the fossil performance was quite acceptable. I did see things slow down but I don't recall it being as dramatic as what you are describing. How does your replay script work? Are you overlapping

Re: [fossil-users] why does `fossil rm' not do the real thing?

2012-12-14 Thread Matt Welland
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 05:04:52PM -0700, Matt Welland wrote: This is the classical divide between pragmatists (I want to get my job with with minimal pain so I can go home a play ball with my son) versus

Re: [fossil-users] applied DVCS for collaborative work - on the fossil project itself, or otherwise

2012-12-13 Thread Matt Welland
One partial solution available today is to use http://chiselapp.com. Simply use their clone repo feature with regular pull. What is missing is a way to register the fork with the original project. It would be cool if it was possible to submit the URL of the forked repo to the parent. The parent

Re: [fossil-users] applied DVCS for collaborative work - on the fossil project itself, or otherwise

2012-12-13 Thread Matt Welland
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:37 AM, C. Thomas Stover c...@thomasstover.comwrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:27:03 -0700 Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: One partial solution available today is to use http://chiselapp.com. Simply use their clone repo feature with regular pull. What

Re: [fossil-users] why does `fossil rm' not do the real thing?

2012-12-13 Thread Matt Welland
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 4:48 PM, j. v. d. hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:23:12 +0100, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Eric e...@deptj.eu wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:55:55 -0500, Altu Faltu altufa...@mail.com wrote: In

Re: [fossil-users] why does `fossil rm' not do the real thing?

2012-12-11 Thread Matt Welland
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:08 PM, K k...@lightpowered.org wrote: I agree with Themba. I like that Fossil is a separate repo 'world' from my files. If this boundary is to be pierced, I think it should require passing in some kind of explicit switch to cause it. eg., ./fossil -s rm ..., s in

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread Matt Welland
A grep though history would be a very useful functionality, There have been many times I'd have used it. Using sqlite3 glob or like for the pattern match would be more than adequate. If you need a regex just use the glob to select for the lowest common denominator and then pipe though egrep with

Re: [fossil-users] why does `fossil rm' not do the real thing?

2012-11-20 Thread Matt Welland
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:32 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: I already stumbled a couple of times over the fact that `fossil rm' and `fossil mv' only act on the repository but not on the check out,

Re: [fossil-users] fossil 1.24 not working via ssh

2012-11-12 Thread Matt Welland
the source of the trouble: it need not be printable characters coming over the ssh connection after all. j. On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 23:44:31 +0100, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: I'll top-post an answer to this one

Re: [fossil-users] fossil 1.24 not working via ssh

2012-11-11 Thread Matt Welland
sshfs is cool but in a corporate environment it can't always be used. For example fuse is not installed for end users on the servers I have access to. I would also be very wary of sshfs and multi-user access. Sqlite3 locking on NFS doesn't always work well, I imagine that locking issues on sshfs

Re: [fossil-users] fossil 1.24 not working via ssh

2012-11-11 Thread Matt Welland
with fsecure ssh but I hope it gets us one step closer. Thanks, Matt -=- On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 1:53 PM, j. v. d. hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:35:25 +0100, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 2:56 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh

Re: [fossil-users] fossil 1.24 not working via ssh

2012-11-11 Thread Matt Welland
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: I'll top-post an answer to this one as this thread has wandered and gotten very long, so who knows who is still following :) I made a simple tweak

Re: [fossil-users] fossil 1.24 not working via ssh

2012-11-11 Thread Matt Welland
% complete... project-id: CE59BB9F186226D80E49D1FA2DB29F935CCA0333 server-id: 3e5f8ed7b0eed8a144fa4b07b4b34cc6c374d20c admin-user: matt (password is 40faae) On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com

[fossil-users] Fossil gdiff fails on system where /var/tmp is a symlink

2012-11-06 Thread Matt Welland
Reported a while ago, any progress or work-around? Fossil still has a problem with /var/tmp. May be related to it being a symlink? bash-3.00$ ~/bin/fossil gdiff --to d69a --from 4509 Index: dashboard.scm ==

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil gdiff fails on system where /var/tmp is a symlink

2012-11-06 Thread Matt Welland
Yes, that fixed it. Thanks! On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: Reported a while ago, any progress or work-around? Does the following change help? Index: src/blob.c

Re: [fossil-users] Rebase is NOT fundamentally incompatible with Fossil

2012-08-14 Thread Matt Welland
I like the idea of cherry picking to a new branch. This would have nicely solved a few problems I've faced. I suppose you can kind of do this now using fossil cherrypick and manually creating the new branch but the equivalency to the original edits is not preserved and merging back into a stream

Re: [fossil-users] How do I rebuild my fossil repo?

2012-07-06 Thread Matt Welland
? ** ** -BobC ** ** ** ** *From:* fossil-users-boun...@lists.fossil-scm.org [mailto: fossil-users-boun...@lists.fossil-scm.org] *On Behalf Of *Matt Welland *Sent:* Thursday, July 05, 2012 8:33 AM *To:* Fossil SCM user's discussion *Subject:* Re: [fossil-users] How do I rebuild my fossil repo

Re: [fossil-users] How do I rebuild my fossil repo?

2012-07-05 Thread Matt Welland
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: The only way i can think of is to dump/import the sql. Sorry for the brevity - typing on a phone on an over-full train. I think that dumping to a git fast export format and then writing scripts to manipulate the fast

Re: [fossil-users] Turning off change tracking for certain files

2012-07-02 Thread Matt Welland
Just a general comment on this proposal To reiterate the solution provided by Mike, I think this problem can be easily solved by user methodology with no changes to fossil. If you have generated or user edited files create and check in templates. Add the appropriate targets to your make file

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil on Android or compiling with tcc?

2012-06-19 Thread Matt Welland
Perhaps not relevant to Android but just in case it helps I run fossil on my n900 (arm based antiquated smart phone). I built using scratchbox, http://www.scratchbox.org. It was an almost zero effort compile. On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Mike Meyer m...@mired.org wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun

Re: [fossil-users] send mail on checkin?

2012-06-05 Thread Matt Welland
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Jeremy Anderson jere...@gmail.com wrote: Something my team finds useful at work is a way to send checkin mail - an automated email that is fired off by our old SCM (or a companion process) to a specific email list address (which users can sub/unsub from to opt

Re: [fossil-users] Newbie question about basics of using fossil

2012-05-31 Thread Matt Welland
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Andrew Stuart andrew.stu...@supercoders.com.au wrote: Hello all, I'm a complete newb with fossil and trying to grasp some basic concepts. I have an Ubuntu system that I am developing on. I want to ensure that various files that I modify are in Fossil SCM.

Re: [fossil-users] losing history in private branch merge?

2012-05-25 Thread Matt Welland
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:10 AM, org.fossil-scm.fossil-us...@io7m.comwrote: On Fri, 25 May 2012 11:53:35 -0400 Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:42 AM, org.fossil-scm.fossil-us...@io7m.comwrote: Is it possible to avoid squashing all private commits into one?

Re: [fossil-users] fossil bug - same file created simultaneously in two work areas not merging properly

2012-05-23 Thread Matt Welland
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.namewrote: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 01:16:08PM -0700, Justin Gedge wrote: Uncovered a bug. In this case, two users working in their own fossil work

Re: [fossil-users] fossil bug - same file created simultaneously in two work areas not merging properly

2012-05-23 Thread Matt Welland
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.name

Re: [fossil-users] fossil bug - same file created simultaneously in two work areas not merging properly

2012-05-23 Thread Matt Welland
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Michael L. Barrow mlbar...@barrow.mewrote: Currently it looks to the first person to commit as though their changes were discarded. The file is marked MERGED yet only contains content from the last person to add. Perhaps not something that will happen very

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil commands will not follow through managed symlink dirs

2012-05-17 Thread Matt Welland
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Gé Weijers g...@weijers.org wrote: Oops I sent this out before it was ready. Basically, you keep a list of device-inode pairs for each file while traversing the file system, which lets you detect duplicates. Ge' Can realpath or equivalent be used in

Re: [fossil-users] fossil push doesn't show up on the server

2012-05-07 Thread Matt Welland
I think this is a good illustration of how noisy output makes it hard for new users to see problems occurring. I would prefer to see most of the sync output suppressed unless a verbose switch is flipped. Most of the time people really only need to know that the sync succeeded or failed. At the

Re: [fossil-users] SSH commands run as user nobody

2012-05-07 Thread Matt Welland
Regarding ssh transport for fossil: I've been trying to get ssh to work with fsecure and on Linux (openssh) and I have never had any luck. If someone using fossil ssh for clone, sync etc. with different user(s) or different hosts at either end of the pipe could post their exact setup and settings

Re: [fossil-users] recent change: alt-root and its purpose?

2012-04-30 Thread Matt Welland
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Leo Razoumov slonik...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 09:34, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: [snip] I think this means that every time one accesses a repository via cg-bin

[fossil-users] Idea: Close coupled usage model for fossil

2012-04-30 Thread Matt Welland
The discussion on keeping the location of checkouts in the repo deb brought up an interesting thought. Observing the usage in our teams it is apparent that the distributed nature of fossil is more of a burden than a benefit 90% of the time but that remaining 10% of the time we very much

[fossil-users] Update to fsl wrapper, detects and informs user if there are forks.

2012-04-30 Thread Matt Welland
We've had several folks get very confused by the accidental creation of forks. The conversation goes something like this: DeveloperA: Go ahead and update, I've checked in change xyz DeveloperB: Ok (pause) I don't see it are you sure you checked it in ... and fifteen minutes later I get a call

Re: [fossil-users] recent change: alt-root and its purpose?

2012-04-28 Thread Matt Welland
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Leo Razoumov slonik...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Fossil design clearly separates a project repository database from a checkout database. It is explicitly stated in the Fossil

Re: [fossil-users] How to list merged files after update

2012-04-25 Thread Matt Welland
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Kriangkrai Soatthiyanont kks...@gmail.comwrote: It seems that `fossil changes` will show MERGED_WITH when you used `fossil merge`, not when `fossil update` (to fix would fork error). Anyway, after you have manually resolve conflicts, MERGED_WITH is still shown,

Re: [fossil-users] Question about tags and autosync...

2012-04-25 Thread Matt Welland
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Michael L. Barrow mlbar...@barrow.mewrote: Firstly, I'm running: This is fossil version 1.21 [002580c50d] 2011-12-13 13:53:56 UTC Perhaps I'm confused, but the documentation for

Re: [fossil-users] Status of GUI for Windows?

2012-04-20 Thread Matt Welland
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Kostas Karanikolas karaniko...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I'm the developer of Fuel. A reason why files are not being displayed could be that a view filter for some kind of file is active (Unknown files for example). Check the View menu. I have a new version coming

Re: [fossil-users] fossil.exe: lack both primary and secondary files

2012-04-14 Thread Matt Welland
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Petr Ferdus petr...@centrum.cz wrote: Hello, I am trying to merge my local fossil repo with trunk and all I receive is message fossil.exe: lack both primary and secondary files. I

Re: [fossil-users] Request feature : choose directory for the addremove command

2012-04-13 Thread Matt Welland
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 5:59 AM, vince vinc...@neuf.fr wrote: Hello, the command addremove synchronize the repository with the working directory. So that fossil adds files that have nothing to do with my projects, such as the file fossil.exeitself! We should be able to choose from which

[fossil-users] fossil: unable to create directory /var/tmp

2012-04-13 Thread Matt Welland
We are seeing the following error in some users environments and I have not been able to root cause it yet. Does anyone have suggestions on how to debug this? fossil gdiff --from abce3460ac --to c628b11818 ./abcdef.rb fossil: unable to create directory /var/tmp

Re: [fossil-users] fsl wrapper updated

2012-03-29 Thread Matt Welland
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm... I haven't tested from a fresh install in a while now that I think of it.There is likely something in my environment that masks the problem you are seeing. I'm having trouble with the fossil binary 1.22

[fossil-users] fsl wrapper updated

2012-03-28 Thread Matt Welland
The fsl convienence wrapper has had a few updates and seems to be working pretty well for us. I'm announcing it (again) to the fossil list perchance it is of use to anyone else. Features: 1. areas. Store your fossils in different directories, e.g. public, private, customera, etc. List the areas

Re: [fossil-users] fsl wrapper updated

2012-03-28 Thread Matt Welland
reporting for the UI is ... not what I'm seeing. On 29 March 2012 04:26, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: The fsl convienence wrapper has had a few updates and seems to be working pretty well for us. I'm announcing it (again) to the fossil list perchance it is of use to anyone else

Re: [fossil-users] Thanks and some questions

2012-03-19 Thread Matt Welland
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:12 AM, mail...@nym.mixmin.net wrote: [snip] I often add programs to the project and I don't always remember to tell fossil about them. What is the correct way to use fossil so when you work on new projects where you don't have everything that will ultimately be

Re: [fossil-users] problem with illegal characters

2012-03-08 Thread Matt Welland
I'm in the mood for some long winded editorializing Bob Coder is moving his development team off of AntiquatedSCM and on to one of the fancy new distributed SCMs that are all the rage. They look at git but it seems kinda complicated and one of the devs suggests Fossil. Wow, nice, simple,

Re: [fossil-users] Overwriting binary files on 'update'

2012-03-01 Thread Matt Welland
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Leo Razoumov slonik...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/3/1 Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.name: Hello, in fossil 1.21, I've a modified openoffice file. Then I run fossil update, and it tells me there is a merge conflict with a binary file, that it cannot

[fossil-users] fsl wrapper script, might be of use to others ...

2012-02-17 Thread Matt Welland
I have written a wrapper script for fossil that makes some minor adaptions to accommodate a somewhat more Unix centric use model and where a large number of repos must be dealt with. In the off chance that others may find it useful I'm making it available at:

[fossil-users] With jimtcl available can we have hooks that trigger tcl scripts stored in the db?

2012-02-13 Thread Matt Welland
I think it may be very useful if it was possible to call tcl scripts stored in the repo db (revision controlled files or wiki pages?) at pre/post commit and other interesting times. I know hooks were previously not accepted since making things consistent between Windows and Linux was difficult.

Re: [fossil-users] With jimtcl available can we have hooks that trigger tcl scripts stored in the db?

2012-02-13 Thread Matt Welland
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Steve Bennett ste...@workware.net.auwrote: On 14/02/2012, at 4:22 AM, Matt Welland wrote: I think it may be very useful if it was possible to call tcl scripts stored in the repo db (revision controlled files or wiki pages?) at pre/post commit and other

Re: [fossil-users] zip/tar patch

2012-02-11 Thread Matt Welland
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 7:55 AM, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: any interest in this simple patch? I think the proposed behavior is a good way to go. hmm, on Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 07:48:30PM +0100, frantisek holop said that hi there, the motivation for this patch was that the

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-04 Thread Matt Welland
Seconded. The hidden lines receive more emphasis than the change. Do a tkdiff on the same change and it is immediately obvious what the change is. I checked meld, tkdiff and xxdiff and in all of them the actual character that was removed is also highlighted making it immediately obvious what

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-03 Thread Matt Welland
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: For some time now, the SQLite and Fossil websites have been running on the retro-sbsdiff branch of Fossil. The retro-sbsdiff branch uses a vastly simplified format for the side-by-side diffs that omits all of the colors and

[fossil-users] fossil rm followed by unix rm followed by update and files come back, is this desirable?

2012-02-03 Thread Matt Welland
If I do: fossil rm some/file.txt rm some/file.txt ...do stuff... fossil update then some/file.txt is resurrected which is really really annoying when you just got your build to work and then because files that shouldn't be there suddenly reappear and things break. I can see where might be some

Re: [fossil-users] fossil rm followed by unix rm followed by update and files come back, is this desirable?

2012-02-03 Thread Matt Welland
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Dmitry Chestnykh dmi...@codingrobots.comwrote: On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 09:18:32 -0700 Matt Welland wrote: If I do: fossil rm some/file.txt rm some/file.txt fossil commit People often prefer to commit when their work has reached some level of completion

Re: [fossil-users] How to limit fossil diff output to just names of the changed files?

2012-01-31 Thread Matt Welland
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Leo Razoumov slonik...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am a new Fossil SCM user and it is my first posting to this mailing list. Please, forgive me if what I am asking has been discussed and answered here before. When I do sh$ fossil diff --from ver1 --to

Re: [fossil-users] PDF as embedded documentation

2012-01-29 Thread Matt Welland
etc. goes away. I may not have it set up optimally however. Thanks, Tomek On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: I have been doing exactly the same thing. A LaTeX (lyx) document plus a make file that writes out html and a pdf and it seems to work great. I

Re: [fossil-users] Work from Windows and Linux simultaneously.

2012-01-28 Thread Matt Welland
Essentially the request here is to support a relative path to the .fossil file in the _FOSSIL_ file. This would be very useful for me and as far as I can tell there is no good technical reason why it would not work just fine. John's desired work strategy can easily be supported with the relative

Re: [fossil-users] Work from Windows and Linux simultaneously.

2012-01-28 Thread Matt Welland
list as a low priority but I don't see any compelling technical reasons why relative paths wouldn't work fine. On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: John's desired work strategy can

Re: [fossil-users] Work from Windows and Linux simultaneously.

2012-01-28 Thread Matt Welland
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: Essentially the request here is to support a relative path to the .fossil file in the _FOSSIL_ file. i. Use the path to the .fossil as given

Re: [fossil-users] PDF as embedded documentation

2012-01-20 Thread Matt Welland
I have been doing exactly the same thing. A LaTeX (lyx) document plus a make file that writes out html and a pdf and it seems to work great. I suppose it may depend on just how much in the way of hard to compress pictures comprise your document. I do wish there was a way with the embedded

Re: [fossil-users] fossil not tracking directories / dir artifacts after switching branches

2011-12-22 Thread Matt Welland
I think a good algorithm would be quite simple: If a file being removed as part of a checkout to a different branch is the last file in a directory and the directory is not listed in the empty-dirs entry then remove the directory. This should have zero negative impact on anyone and during the

Re: [fossil-users] fossil not tracking directories / dir artifacts after switching branches

2011-12-22 Thread Matt Welland
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: The rmdir(2) system call on Posix is a no-op if the directory is not empty. So I was thinking that we could just invoke rmdir() (or _rmdir() on windows) on the directory of a file every time a file is deleted, and let the

Re: [fossil-users] Behavior of rm, mv, and changes/extra

2011-12-21 Thread Matt Welland
A -f option on rm and mv might do the trick. Default behavior doesn't change. Add two characters to force the filesystem action. On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Dmitry Chestnykh dmi...@codingrobots.comwrote: On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:52:54 -0500 Jeremy Cowgar wrote: fossil rm should not remove

[fossil-users] bug in user handling

2011-12-15 Thread Matt Welland
Based on what I've tried so far fossil ui will *always* choose the first user listed in the user table. None of $USER, --user, -U, default-user in global-config or in config will override fossil ui using the first user listed. This is a problem because cloning from a file will preserve the users

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil version 1.21

2011-12-13 Thread Matt Welland
The changes include: Stop showing the server-code in status outputs - it is no longer used for anything. I've been using the server code extracted with fossil info to uniquely identify repos. Is there a new way? I assume that the server code itself continues to exist? On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at

[fossil-users] fossil timeline after/before date interpretation

2011-12-13 Thread Matt Welland
I'm not getting what I would expect from running fossil timeline commands. The example command below should have suppressed the 2011-12-01 entry should it not? chlr11723 fossil timeline after '2011-12-06 00:09:08' -R fossil.fossil === 2011-12-13 === 14:05:36 [489c67ae46] Update the release date

[fossil-users] It would be nice if sync collisions failed more gracefully

2011-12-07 Thread Matt Welland
This is on NFS and with a large check in so it is worst case scenario but still I'm seeing this error when people simultaneously do certain heavy weight actions. Are there any settings that would help here? I've dug though the docs and not seen anything yet. I'll dig though the code tonight but

Re: [fossil-users] It would be nice if sync collisions failed more gracefully

2011-12-07 Thread Matt Welland
wasn't clear in my message, these are being served directly by file access, not http and via NFS from multiple hosts. I don't think wal is a safe option. On 12/07/2011 07:48 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: This is on NFS

[fossil-users] FYI - fossil on n900 works great. Using as sync for zim

2011-12-03 Thread Matt Welland
Just in case it piques anyones interest, I'm using fossil on my n900 phone to sync zim data to from my desktop and netbook. I like the fit between zim and the Getting Things Done methodology ( http://zim-wiki.org/manual/Usage/Getting_Things_Done.html). I just installed scratchbox (aprox 1/2 hr)

Re: [fossil-users] hidden files on linux support?

2011-12-02 Thread Matt Welland
Perhaps you want: fossil add --dotfiles . On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Oliver Friedrich beowul...@gmx.de wrote: i'm testing out fossil for my source, found an interesting issue. Checking in files and folders

Re: [fossil-users] hidden files on linux support?

2011-12-02 Thread Matt Welland
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Eric e...@deptj.eu wrote: On Fri, December 2, 2011 7:26 pm, Stephan Beal wrote: On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Eric e...@deptj.eu wrote: Why on earth would you want to? I know others have offered suggestions and explanations for how to do it, but I

Re: [fossil-users] Quickref available for fossil

2011-11-25 Thread Matt Welland
is working for them and provide me with an example URL I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Matt -=- On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have -y documented in my current version of fossil

[fossil-users] A couple thoughts/suggested future enhancements for fossil, ui security, move and ssh access

2011-11-25 Thread Matt Welland
fossil ui == problem: on a shared machine it is possible to accidentally browse someones already-running ui session possible solutions 1. only the first login is passwordless, subsequent logins require a password 2. a random key is passed to the browser in the URL, only with that key is the

Re: [fossil-users] A couple thoughts/suggested future enhancements for fossil, ui security, move and ssh access

2011-11-25 Thread Matt Welland
: sent 7697.3, received 6667.9 debug1: Exit status 0 end transcript=== On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger jo...@britannica.bec.de wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:17:20AM -0700, Matt Welland wrote: sync via ssh = From my comments in another

[fossil-users] Quickref available for fossil

2011-11-24 Thread Matt Welland
I'm teaching a class on using fossil next week and put together a quick ref sheet to help folks get going. I haven't seen any other quick ref sheets for fossil so maybe this will be of use to others. PDF: http://www.kiatoa.com/cgi-bin/fossils/opensrc/doc/tip/docs/fossil-quickref.pdf Opendoc:

[fossil-users] Cloning, syncing via ssh appears to hang...

2011-11-07 Thread Matt Welland
I'm on Linux and commands such as the following appear to hang: fossil clone ssh://u...@host.domain.tld/path/repo.fossil repo.fossil I have ssh with keys (passwordless login) working fine. How to debug this? fossil version This is fossil version 1.19 [6517b5c857] 2011-09-01 18:25:19 UTC

Re: [fossil-users] Cloning, syncing via ssh appears to hang...

2011-11-07 Thread Matt Welland
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Eduardo Tongson propol...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm on Linux and commands such as the following appear to hang: fossil clone ssh://u...@host.domain.tld/path/repo.fossil repo.fossil I have

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil Repository Does Not Exist Error

2011-10-28 Thread Matt Welland
I usually open the _FOSSIL_ file with sqlite3 and update the pointer to the repo db. A repodb reset command or some such would be nice to have. matt@hermes sqlite3 _FOSSIL_ ~/data/opensrc SQLite version 3.7.5 Enter .help for instructions Enter SQL statements terminated with a ; sqlite update vvar

Re: [fossil-users] Creating new branch/repository problems

2011-10-23 Thread Matt Welland
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Jared Harder jared.har...@gmail.comwrote: @Matt: I followed the directions and eventually started up a second server. I needed to use fossil server instead because I couldn't access the fossil ui interface from external machines. The README file I edited

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