[fossil-users] fossil 1.24 not working via ssh

2012-11-10 Thread j. van den hoff
hi list, first time around: I've recently had a first look at fossil. it's mostly working as advertised but communication via ssh won't work. from going through the archives I get the impression that this is a rather long standing problem (~ years...) related to interfering output from the

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

2012-11-10 Thread j. van den hoff
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:48:11 +0100, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 9:43 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: whoa! that's a quick reply ;-). I would really appreciate if the ssh issue could get addressed by the developers. It has my attention

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

2012-11-10 Thread j. van den hoff
thanks for responding. On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:53:40 +0100, Martin Gagnon eme...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 9:43 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: I would really appreciate if the ssh

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

2012-11-10 Thread j. van den hoff
at 2:18 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Martin Gagnon eme...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 9:43 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: I would

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

2012-11-11 Thread j. van den hoff
that I was having with fossil+ssh, or at least only did so partially. Why not? In what sshfs failed to give you the equivalent functionality than a remote access to a fossil database through ssh? 2012/11/11 Timothy Beyer bey...@fastmail.net At Sat, 10 Nov 2012 22:31:57 +0100, j. van den hoff

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

2012-11-12 Thread j. van den hoff
: 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...@googlemail.com**wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:39:27 +0100, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: sshfs is cool but in a corporate environment it can't

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

2012-11-12 Thread j. van den hoff
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:51:04 +0100, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 8:36 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: I've tested this here (with Fossil-4473a27f3b6e049e) but can only report partial success: * it works using bash/ksh as login shell

Re: [fossil-users] [1.22] Easy way to cancel tentative changes?

2012-11-16 Thread j. van den hoff
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:12:23 +0100, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: Hello This is a newbie question. Prior to using Fossil, to try something and still be able to go back in case the change didn't work, the only way I had was to comment things out. Now that I'm used to using Fossil, I

Re: [fossil-users] suggestion

2012-11-20 Thread j. van den hoff
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:53:04 +0100, Themba Fletcher themba.fletc...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Themba Fletcher themba.fletc...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:12 PM, j. v. d. hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:49:22 +0100, Richard

Re: [fossil-users] suggestion

2012-11-20 Thread j. van den hoff
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:13:51 +0100, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:12 PM, j. v. d. hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: some more remarks from a new user: I've been trying out fossil only for the last two weeks or so. and coming from `mercurial' (and

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

2012-11-20 Thread j. van den hoff
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, i.e. I always have to issue two commands in order to actually remove a file from the (future of) the project. obviously this is different from other VCSs

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

2012-11-20 Thread j. van den hoff
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:00:29 +0100, Remigiusz Modrzejewski l...@maxnet.org.pl wrote: On Nov 20, 2012, at 14:45 , Richard Hipp wrote: CVS did not couple the actions, and I copied CVS in this regard. I agree with you now, that coupling them is the right thing to do. But I fear to

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

2012-11-20 Thread j. van den hoff
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:48:00 +0100, James Turner ja...@calminferno.net wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:39:06PM +, David Given wrote: Richard Hipp wrote: [...] CVS did not couple the actions, and I copied CVS in this regard. I agree with you now, that coupling them is the right thing

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

2012-12-13 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:09:46 +0100, Jan Danielsson jan.m.daniels...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/13/12 05:07, Carson Chittom wrote: Nolan Darilek no...@thewordnerd.info writes: If we're talking about adding git to the name because of this whole rm thing, we might as well consider mercurial as a

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

2012-12-13 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:02:25 +0100, Marcelo richiead...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/12/13 Nolan Darilek no...@thewordnerd.info On 12/13/2012 08:40 AM, Marcelo wrote: They want the good things about fossil but they want to keep working as if it were Git. I say, if they like Git so much, eat the

[fossil-users] spurious CRLF generated by `finfo -p' (and other terminal output)

2012-12-20 Thread j. van den hoff
hi, I accidentally noted that all terminal (stdout) output of `fossil' seemingly uses CRLF (\r\n) as EOL even on unix-based machines (i.e. everything in the world except those view machines running something else ;-)). at least it does so under MacOSX. I would find it more reasonable if

[fossil-users] PLOS (II)

2012-12-20 Thread j. van den hoff
hoping that this does not generate so much turbelence as the mv/rm issue did: I've stumbled over this behavior: -- there is a user account on a remote repo created for me (with commit access) -- I do the clone a la `fossil clone http://myname@URL myrepo.fsl and I'm asked correctly for the

Re: [fossil-users] spurious CRLF generated by `finfo -p' (and other terminal output)

2012-12-20 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:03:07 +0100, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:47 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: hi, I accidentally noted that all terminal (stdout) output of `fossil' seemingly uses CRLF (\r\n) as EOL even on unix-based machines

[fossil-users] `fossil info' feature request (a.k.a. wish)

2013-01-10 Thread j. van den hoff
hi, I would find it useful if `fossil info' (or `stat', `timeline', or a new command) would provide a means/option to show the total number of revisions (by default or optional), more precisely, the number of file commits (as it is called in `fossil help timeline) in the repo. the

Re: [fossil-users] `fossil info' feature request (a.k.a. wish)

2013-01-10 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:35:06 +0100, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:56 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: I would find it useful if `fossil info' (or `stat', `timeline', or a new command) would provide a means/option to show

Re: [fossil-users] `fossil info' feature request (a.k.a. wish)

2013-01-10 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:51:51 +0100, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: i'll sign up for adding that - i would be able to do this on Sunday. i would add it to the status command because we have that info in

Re: [fossil-users] `fossil info' feature request (a.k.a. wish)

2013-01-10 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:51:51 +0100, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: i'll sign up for adding that - i would be able to do this on Sunday. i would add it to the status command because we have that info in

[fossil-users] problem with selecting timeline entries for diffing in the GUI

2013-01-11 Thread j. van den hoff
my question regards the (very useful!) functionality of selecting (clicking) two timeline entries in the web GUI to the repo for diffing. this works alright for me with a certain (remote) repository. it does +not+ work for the local copy of that repo or any other local repo (under URL

Re: [fossil-users] timeline bug?

2013-01-16 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:28:24 +0100, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 5:48 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: is this a bug or a feature? I do hope the former since it's really bad behaviour when driving `fossil' with a script. It's

Re: [fossil-users] Newly introduced inconsistency

2013-01-17 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:26:29 +0100, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Stefan Bellon sbel...@sbellon.de wrote: While this seems to be an easy change, now the dbstat command outputs checkin-count while the info command outputs checkins. And because

Re: [fossil-users] some questions about fossil-as-document-repo

2013-01-17 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:53:43 +0100, C. Thomas Stover c...@thomasstover.com wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 07:55:09 -0600 Carson Chittom car...@wistly.net wrote: C. Thomas Stover c...@thomasstover.com writes: Well if hardcopy means scanned paper (no ocr) then it sounds like a very large

Re: [fossil-users] Newly introduced inconsistency

2013-01-18 Thread j. van den hoff
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:46:20 +0100, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: the difference between the two numbers differs in different repositories, but info/stat consistently show _lower_ values. They use a

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

2013-01-28 Thread j. van den hoff
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:15:22 +0100, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: One big problem here is that the user will doubtless expect to have full Perl regular expressions. That will mean another compile-time

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

2013-01-28 Thread j. van den hoff
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:34:44 +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger jo...@britannica.bec.de wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 08:50:56AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: The regular expression matching in www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/artifact/c8fb75a1615f is also lightweight and it supports | and it is usually as

Re: [fossil-users] ssh transport and tcsh

2013-02-06 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:48:01 +0100, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: Using ssh for transport still doesn't work if a users login shell is tcsh. I'm looking for help on this problem as I've not yet found a solution. If anyone can confirm that the problem exists or if anyone has

Re: [fossil-users] Feature requests: fossil ui and server improvements

2013-02-20 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:40:27 +0100, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Carson Chittom car...@wistly.net wrote: Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com writes: There is also no reason to prohibit text-based browsers. i'm not aware of any which support

Re: [fossil-users] Feature requests: fossil ui and server improvements

2013-02-20 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:06:35 +0100, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:51 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: can someone confirm these problems? Just to be pedantic for a moment: i wouldn't call them problems unless whatever you call

Re: [fossil-users] Did you know that Fossil could do...

2013-05-28 Thread j. van den hoff
On Tue, 28 May 2013 15:08:10 +0200, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: Survey: How many people know that in the web-based timeline for Fossil, you can click on any two nodes in the graph and get a diff between those two nodes? I think this is a very useful feature. But I'm guessing that not

Re: [fossil-users] Ticket [967cedbf20]: fossil extra - Report for subtree

2013-06-21 Thread j. van den hoff
just a thought: a somehow related feature would be the ability to do something like fossil ci {dirname} where {dirname} is one of the directories found in the checkout which then should restrict the ci to everything recursively found in {dirname} and below. personally I don't miss such a

Re: [fossil-users] ticket: binary problems on Mac?

2013-06-28 Thread j. van den hoff
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 19:31:01 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: Can anyone confirm/deny/elaborate on: http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/tktview/bf142968a8db271fb13cf46b715af9ebaad59f44 just tested it: yes, I can confirm the problem, although the error message is slightly

[fossil-users] `fossil search' question

2013-07-14 Thread j. van den hoff
I have two questions regarding the `search' command: 1. the pattern seem neither to be true regexp nor shell glob patterns, e.g. fossil search '.' (verbatim `.' if shell pattern, arbitrary char if regexp) fossil search '*' (arbitrary pattern if shell pattern, invalid if regexp) fossil

Re: [fossil-users] `fossil search' question

2013-07-14 Thread j. van den hoff
On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 11:51:17 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 10:58 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: all seem to match everything. question: what is the underlying pattern syntax and why do all of the above searches match

Re: [fossil-users] Random thoughts on Fossil v2

2013-07-22 Thread j. van den hoff
On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:40:23 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Jacek Cała jacek.c...@gmail.com wrote: - project create initializes internal repo ticket number

Re: [fossil-users] Random thoughts on Fossil v2

2013-07-22 Thread j. van den hoff
On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 18:01:27 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: reverse flag so that --reverse -n -1 would show only the first checkin? then I would opt for `-n 0' to get the whole time line. but

Re: [fossil-users] Random thoughts on Fossil v2

2013-07-22 Thread j. van den hoff
On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 18:12:03 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:09 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: then I would opt for `-n 0' to get the whole time line. but actually I would prefer a `-u(nlimited)' or `-a(ll)' flag or similar

Re: [fossil-users] Scripting in Fossil v2

2013-07-23 Thread j. van den hoff
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:29:36 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Aaron W.Hsu arcf...@sacrideo.us wrote: I’ve so far managed to avoid using the feature myself, but I have been on teams where people tried to use this to some effect, and

Re: [fossil-users] Scripting in Fossil v2

2013-07-23 Thread j. van den hoff
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:29:32 +0200, Konstantin Khomoutov flatw...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:03:09 +0200 j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: [...] While the Lua scripting enabled me to gain a level of sophistication and relative rigor in the process

[fossil-users] `fossil finfo -b' is slightly misbehaving (bug?)

2013-08-08 Thread j. van den hoff
hi, I want to report the following observation: `finfo -b' is supposed to produce one-line abbreviations for all commits but in fact introduces spurious line breaks which put a single trailing word (or some chars) on the next line. example: doing fossil finfo -b BUILD.txt in the Fossil

[fossil-users] fossil clone question

2013-08-08 Thread j. van den hoff
hi, `fossil help clone' tells me: 8-- By default, your current login name is used to create the default admin user. This can be overridden using the -A|--admin-user parameter. 8-- I just tried that locally (within my file system): fossil clone -A JoeDoe

Re: [fossil-users] cmdline arguments for repopsitory are inconsequent

2013-08-08 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 10:58:58 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Rene renew...@xs4all.nl wrote: -R seems redundant. It's not _entirely_ redundant - in some cases it changes how the arguments are processed. Yes, there are inconsistencies

Re: [fossil-users] fossil clone question

2013-08-08 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 09:53:52 +0200, Andy Bradford amb-sendok-1378540432.bggbdoanfmpdfnjoo...@bradfords.org wrote: Thus said j. van den hoff on Thu, 08 Aug 2013 09:31:28 +0200: 1.in `orig.fossil'the(sole) `setup'user isme (current_login_name), which is as it should

Re: [fossil-users] cmdline arguments for repopsitory are inconsequent

2013-08-08 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 12:23:56 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: Sorry for the confusion: don't much care for is another way of saying do not like, and we agree completely that these inconsistencies

Re: [fossil-users] incomplete documentation?

2013-08-08 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 17:00:08 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Stestagg stest...@gmail.com wrote: I would agree here, it's not at all clear. Even when you know there is a --user option, then the fossil output isn't clear: In Fossil's

Re: [fossil-users] simple Fossil For New Users intro guide

2013-08-08 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 22:25:33 +0200, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote: This Fossil For New Users intro to doing the basics in Fossil was a few minutes' work, in part as a reminder for myself. I thought it might be useful for others as well, though, so I finally decided to put it online.

Re: [fossil-users] incomplete documentation?

2013-08-08 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 19:49:18 +0200, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Julian j...@ptolserv.com wrote: One of the problems is that the help given by fossil help command isn't always complete. For example the help for checkin (fossil help ci), doesn't list

Re: [fossil-users] simple Fossil For New Users intro guide

2013-08-08 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 23:12:52 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:48 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: 2. I'm not comfortable with categorically recommending to new users to separate the database from the checkout. I know that many

Re: [fossil-users] simple Fossil For New Users intro guide

2013-08-08 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 23:36:14 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:31 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: but what does this proof? the next guy might be a tidy up fanatic and accidentally remove the directory with all the repository

[fossil-users] `fossil mv' question

2013-08-09 Thread j. van den hoff
if I do `fossil mv a b'; mv a b; and then edit the renamed file `b' and check it in, I can do a `fossil diff -r {before_rename} --to{after_rename}' between revisions before and after the rename and get the correct diff listing of `a' vs. `b' as it should be. adding the file name of the

[fossil-users] `fossil mv' question (II)

2013-08-09 Thread j. van den hoff
sorry for the noise in the previous mail. I erroneously stated that I get the full diff for the renamed file when not specifying the file name which is *not* correct. so please forget that. so it seems that diffs across renames do not work currently at all. is that correct? so fossil only

Re: [fossil-users] `fossil mv' question (II)

2013-08-09 Thread j. van den hoff
On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 18:42:59 +0200, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:28 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: so fossil only logs the rename as DELETED plus and ADDED action w/o keeping track of the rename any more so a diff can only be done

Re: [fossil-users] `fossil mv' question (II)

2013-08-09 Thread j. van den hoff
On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 20:33:59 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 8:24 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: to different or newly created dirs: I'm not sure whether such a `mv' is any different from renaming the file itself?) A mv

[fossil-users] `embedded documentation` question

2013-08-14 Thread j. van den hoff
hi, I'm trying to come to terms with the `embedded documentation approach' for a small project (btw: maybe someone finds it useful: it's a drop-in replacement for `cd' maintaining a dynamic directory stack sorted by frequency of visits against which regex pattern matching is performed --

Re: [fossil-users] `embedded documentation` question

2013-08-14 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:11:13 +0200, Natacha Porté nata...@instinctive.eu wrote: Hello, on Wednesday 14 August 2013 at 10:57, j. van den hoff wrote: problem: on the server the repo is located at http://fossil.0branch.com/sd and the cross-links don't work any more since the `sd/' is missing

Re: [fossil-users] `embedded documentation` question

2013-08-14 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:11:13 +0200, Natacha Porté nata...@instinctive.eu wrote: Hello, on Wednesday 14 August 2013 at 10:57, j. van den hoff wrote: problem: on the server the repo is located at http://fossil.0branch.com/sd and the cross-links don't work any more since the `sd/' is missing

Re: [fossil-users] `embedded documentation` question

2013-08-14 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:28:46 +0200, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4:57 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: how can I make the cross-links work both locally as well as when accessing the server repo? Use relative paths. See, for example

Re: [fossil-users] `embedded documentation` question

2013-08-14 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:28:46 +0200, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4:57 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: how can I make the cross-links work both locally as well as when accessing the server repo? Use relative paths. See, for example

[fossil-users] window opened by `diff --tk' is editable

2013-08-20 Thread j. van den hoff
not a big deal but slightly irritating: the tk-window opened by `diff --tk' is editable, i..e one can modify the displayed diff text (w/o any real effect, of course). I don't know Tk, but maybe there's an option to make the window readonly in order to avoid any potential confusion (since

Re: [fossil-users] window opened by `diff --tk' is editable

2013-08-20 Thread j. van den hoff
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:31:24 +0200, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:57 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: not a big deal but slightly irritating: the tk-window opened by `diff --tk' is editable, i..e one can modify the displayed diff text

Re: [fossil-users] getting fossil timeline to show time offsets

2013-08-20 Thread j. van den hoff
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:59:11 +0200, Benedikt Ahrens benedikt.ahr...@gmx.net wrote: Hello, the fossil timeline command shows UTC time rather than observing the system setting (UTC+02:00, in my case). Is there anything I can do to change this? you can switch off UTC (so that it uses local

[fossil-users] strange `fossil diff ' behaviour

2013-08-21 Thread j. van den hoff
hi, I have stumbled over the following observation when performing these action within a checkout of of `fossil' itself: fossil timeline -v -n 10 | grep 5731 ## -- no hit fossil diff -r 5731 ## lots of output (related to which revision???) hopefully not a stupid question: what's going

Re: [fossil-users] strange `fossil diff ' behaviour

2013-08-21 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:58:35 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:53 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: hopefully not a stupid question: what's going on here? can someone confirm this? there is no checkin with a SHA1 hash starts

Re: [fossil-users] strange `fossil diff ' behaviour

2013-08-21 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:25:50 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:22 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:58:35 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote:0. intentionally undocumented or did nobody manage

Re: [fossil-users] strange `fossil diff ' behaviour

2013-08-21 Thread j. van den hoff
unintentionally replied only to stephan, but this should stay on th list, I'd say, so: On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 16:08:16 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 3:25 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: philosophical issues aside: does that mean

Re: [fossil-users] strange `fossil diff ' behaviour

2013-08-21 Thread j. van den hoff
last mail in these matters since it is in danger of deteriorating into just another flame. On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 16:36:58 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:26 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: with due respect, that's too dogmatic

Re: [fossil-users] strange `fossil diff ' behaviour

2013-08-21 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:09:52 +0200, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Marc Simpson m...@0branch.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: DVCSs cannot, by their very nature, portably support sequential numbers.

Re: [fossil-users] strange `fossil diff ' behaviour

2013-08-21 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:10:59 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Marc Simpson m...@0branch.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: DVCSs cannot, by their very nature, portably support sequential

Re: [fossil-users] strange `fossil diff ' behaviour

2013-08-21 Thread j. van den hoff
I'll reply to this mail again, since it is essentially the only one exactly addressing my point: -- I agree that any non-local use of revnums is doomed to failure (with checkins tickets or whatever). -- we don't need some new `svn' like naming scheme of revisions instead of the hashes

Re: [fossil-users] strange `fossil diff ' behaviour

2013-08-21 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:31:17 +0200, Mark Janssen mpc.jans...@gmail.com wrote: To make this less of an academic discussion and to just be able to play very good point (despite being myself in academia ...) and thanks a lot for sharing this. around with it,

Re: [fossil-users] strange `fossil diff ' behaviour

2013-08-21 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 23:07:36 +0200, Mark Janssen mpc.jans...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:27 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:31:17 +0200, Mark Janssen mpc.jans...@gmail.com wrote: To make this less of an academic discussion

Re: [fossil-users] strange `fossil diff ' behaviour

2013-08-21 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 23:19:46 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Mark Janssen mpc.jans...@gmail.comwrote: The fossil rebuild logic uses a two pass algorithm. I am not quite sure why this is necessary, it could have something to do with delta

Re: [fossil-users] strange `fossil diff ' behaviour

2013-08-22 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 00:55:56 +0200, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 2:29 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 23:19:46 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Mark Janssen

[fossil-users] typo in `fossil help ls'

2013-09-29 Thread j. van den hoff
FYI: in fossil version 1.27 [ba779faf48] 2013-09-27 08:52:40 UTC `fsl help ls' contains this text: ... If FILENAMES are included, the only the files listed (or their children if they are directories) are shown. where the first `the' should be deleted. and maybe it could be rephrased

[fossil-users] cgi on Mac problem

2013-09-29 Thread j. van den hoff
hi list, disclaimer: I have no experience whatsoever with apache, cgi, and webservers in general. so maybe I'm missing something stupid... I'm trying for the first time to setup a fossil repo for http access via the cgi route on macosx 10.8.4. if someone has done this for this OS maybe

Re: [fossil-users] cgi on Mac problem

2013-09-29 Thread j. van den hoff
On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 17:19:09 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: - Same thing for the Fossil binary: the WHOLE path leading it up to it must be readable. that was it (and I discovered it myself some 100 ms before your mail arrived -- not enough time to send the

Re: [fossil-users] cgi on Mac problem

2013-09-29 Thread j. van den hoff
. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: hi list, snip what I see: -- access to `http:{mymachine}/cgi-bin/**first.cgi' works just fine (I do get the `hello world' page) -- access to `http:{mymachine}/cgi-bin/**repo.cgi' gives the `internal server error' in the browser

Re: [fossil-users] cgi on Mac problem

2013-09-29 Thread j. van den hoff
On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 17:27:15 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 5:25 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: that was it (and I discovered it myself some 100 ms before your mail arrived -- not enough time to send the SOLVED mail ;-)). I

Re: [fossil-users] cgi on Mac problem

2013-09-29 Thread j. van den hoff
17:35:39 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 5:28 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: thanks for responding. just discovered that actually it were the permissions of the `fossil' executable which where insufficient (not executable

Re: [fossil-users] cgi on Mac problem

2013-09-29 Thread j. van den hoff
On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 17:44:20 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 5:30 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: maybe one could add a few of these things to the fossil howto? should many hit new users, too, I guess. Added: http://fossil

Re: [fossil-users] cgi on Mac problem

2013-09-30 Thread j. van den hoff
On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 17:51:56 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 5:45 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: htmlbodypBad Request: missing REQUEST_URI/p/body/html That's an indication that Apache is missing something. The env vars

Re: [fossil-users] cgi on Mac problem

2013-09-30 Thread j. van den hoff
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:11:41 +0200, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:06 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: The requested URL /cgi-bin/repo.cgi/tarball/** reponame-0253aa7c17e75b5a.tar.**gz was not found on this server. from this I guess

Re: [fossil-users] cgi on Mac problem

2013-09-30 Thread j. van den hoff
d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:06 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: The requested URL /cgi-bin/repo.cgi/tarball/** reponame-0253aa7c17e75b5a.tar.**gz was not found on this server. from this I guess that `fossil' tries ot create a subdir tarball

Re: [fossil-users] cgi on Mac problem

2013-09-30 Thread j. van den hoff
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 21:49:17 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:07 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: so I think either fossil should quote any occurence of `/' when constructing the URL (if possible -- I'm not sure

[fossil-users] typos in docu

2013-10-02 Thread j. van den hoff
there are some typos in the documentation here: http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/server.wiki in the `fossil as cgi' section. the trailing part of the section should read (corrections are bracketed by `***'): 8-- To ***serve***

Re: [fossil-users] Anecdote regarding permissions tracking in Fossil

2013-10-08 Thread j. van den hoff
On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 00:27:12 +0200, Joseph R. Justice jayare...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Alaric Snell-Pym ala...@snell-pym.org.ukwrote: I've written a backup/archival tool based on content-addressible storage, and a common question people ask is So why don't I just

Re: [fossil-users] Incompatible and undocumented output change between 1.24 and 1.27

2013-10-08 Thread j. van den hoff
On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 13:24:39 +0200, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: Losing the username in annotate command line is a big hit for me. I

[fossil-users] chosen project name might interfere with tar/zip download

2013-10-08 Thread j. van den hoff
, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:57 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: it is already done for blanks) when the tarball URL is constructed: after all, the project name is just the descriptive title at the top of the web-page and it feels

Re: [fossil-users] chosen project name might interfere with tar/zip download

2013-10-08 Thread j. van den hoff
On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:50:24 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 2:31 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: coming back to this problem of problematic character such as `/' causing tar/zip download to fail since the URL generated by fossil

Re: [fossil-users] chosen project name might interfere with tar/zip download

2013-10-08 Thread j. van den hoff
On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:26:17 +0200, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:15 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:50:24 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: I suspect for most users it will seem natural to choose

Re: [fossil-users] chosen project name might interfere with tar/zip download

2013-10-08 Thread j. van den hoff
On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:46:46 +0200, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: Trunk now escapes just a handful of characters that might cause problems (\/*?[]). And a comment has been added to the entry box for the Project Name encouraging admins to avoid the use of those special characters.

Re: [fossil-users] chosen project name might interfere with tar/zip download

2013-10-08 Thread j. van den hoff
On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 16:08:27 +0200, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 10:02 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote: I view the download facility mainly as a convenience for anonymous to get hold of the managed files for a certain revision without the need

Re: [fossil-users] chosen project name might interfere with tar/zip download

2013-10-08 Thread j. van den hoff
On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 16:44:55 +0200, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: The latest trunk has (yet another) configuration option that allows you to specify the name prefix for generated tarballs and ZIP archives. If the Abbreviated Name is omitted, the Project Name is used. that sounds like

Re: [fossil-users] chosen project name might interfere with tar/zip download

2013-10-08 Thread j. van den hoff
On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 18:08:19 +0200, Ron Wilson ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Doug Currie doug.cur...@gmail.com wrote: My repos integrate with packaging/build systems (some not under my control) that would break if the archive name was changed by fossil.

Re: [fossil-users] chosen project name might interfere with tar/zip download

2013-10-09 Thread j. van den hoff
On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 16:44:55 +0200, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: The latest trunk has (yet another) configuration option that allows you to specify the name prefix for generated tarballs and ZIP archives. If the Abbreviated Name is omitted, the Project Name is used. a minor thing,

[fossil-users] typo in docu

2013-10-09 Thread j. van den hoff
on pages like {http://url_of_repo}/setup_uedit?id=3 in the special logins section it reads: The password for 'nobody' is ignore. which is probably not the intended meaning ... (missing `d' at the end of sentence). -- Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

[fossil-users] how to fix links to wiki pages if project name is changed?

2013-10-10 Thread j. van den hoff
I just stumbled over this: the URL of the home wiki page contains the project name as a prefix. if the project names is changed _after_ that wiki page has been created/edited, the 'home' link obviously points somewhere else... I understand that I can fix this by explicitely specifying the

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