Re: [fossil-users] strange problem with graphical diff

2017-08-23 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 22:28:03 +0200, Richard Hipp wrote: On 8/23/17, j. van den hoff wrote: On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 19:54:52 +0200, Richard Hipp wrote: unable to create directory /var What happens when you try running this command on

Re: [fossil-users] strange problem with graphical diff

2017-08-23 Thread Richard Hipp
On 8/23/17, j. van den hoff wrote: > On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 19:54:52 +0200, Richard Hipp wrote: > >>> unable to create directory /var >> >> What happens when you try running this command on the latest trunk >> check-in? > > works again. no more hiccups.

Re: [fossil-users] strange problem with graphical diff

2017-08-23 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 19:54:52 +0200, Richard Hipp wrote: unable to create directory /var What happens when you try running this command on the latest trunk check-in? works again. no more hiccups. problem solved it seems. thanks a lot for looking into this. --

Re: [fossil-users] strange problem with graphical diff

2017-08-23 Thread Richard Hipp
> unable to create directory /var What happens when you try running this command on the latest trunk check-in? -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org

Re: [fossil-users] strange problem with graphical diff

2017-08-23 Thread Eric Dillon
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017, 12:19 PM Richard Hipp wrote: And it should now be fixed on trunk. > Verified. Thanks. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org

Re: [fossil-users] strange problem with graphical diff

2017-08-23 Thread Richard Hipp
On 8/23/17, Richard Hipp wrote: > On 8/23/17, Eric Dillon wrote: >> Here is the error generated in Windows. Works correctly without the --to >> parameter. >> >> 10:19:38 $ fo gdiff --from d5b015 --to 810dd0 >> >> Index: src/http_transport.c >>

Re: [fossil-users] strange problem with graphical diff

2017-08-23 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 18:09:56 +0200, Richard Hipp wrote: more important: is a fix/work-around possible (apart from telling me to do it myself which I would have a hard time with ...) Hold on there, honcho. We are not your employees. This is a community effort. Expressing

Re: [fossil-users] strange problem with graphical diff

2017-08-23 Thread Richard Hipp
On 8/23/17, Eric Dillon wrote: > Here is the error generated in Windows. Works correctly without the --to > parameter. > > 10:19:38 $ fo gdiff --from d5b015 --to 810dd0 > > Index: src/http_transport.c > == >

Re: [fossil-users] strange problem with graphical diff

2017-08-23 Thread Eric Dillon
Here's a bisect of the error on Windows. 11:39:32 $ fo bisect good bisect complete 2 BAD 2017-08-21 12:18:49 810dd031ec3ee1d6 5 BAD 2017-08-12 18:24:29 9eea719af68932ad 6 BAD 2017-08-12 18:20:26 9690d370e0714a43 7 BAD 2017-08-12 18:15:36 3b191c984b831571 8 GOOD

Re: [fossil-users] strange problem with graphical diff

2017-08-23 Thread Richard Hipp
On 8/23/17, j. van den hoff wrote: > unable to create directory /var You might be able to work around the problem by adding the --no-dir-symlinks command-line option. -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org ___ fossil-users mailing

Re: [fossil-users] strange problem with graphical diff

2017-08-23 Thread Richard Hipp
On 8/23/17, j. van den hoff wrote: > > I reiterate that I wonder what has changed recently (either on the side of > OSX or fossil) since the problem was definitely non-existent some time > ago? The core problem is that sometimes it is desirable to follow symbolic links and

Re: [fossil-users] strange problem with graphical diff

2017-08-23 Thread Eric Dillon
Here is the error generated in Windows. Works correctly without the --to parameter. 10:19:38 $ fo gdiff --from d5b015 --to 810dd0 Index: src/http_transport.c == the

Re: [fossil-users] strange problem with graphical diff

2017-08-23 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 17:14:05 +0200, Warren Young wrote: On Aug 23, 2017, at 7:21 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: On 8/23/17, j. van den hoff wrote: unable to create directory /var It is trying to create a temporary file in which to

Re: [fossil-users] strange problem with graphical diff

2017-08-23 Thread Richard Hipp
The problem originates at this check-in: https://fossil-scm.org/fossil/timeline?c=2375d6cbce933267 -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org

Re: [fossil-users] strange problem with graphical diff

2017-08-23 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 23, 2017, at 7:21 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > On 8/23/17, j. van den hoff wrote: >> unable to create directory /var > > It is trying to create a temporary file in which to store the one of > the two sides of the diff. Can you trace the problem by

Re: [fossil-users] strange problem with graphical diff

2017-08-23 Thread j. van den hoff
On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 15:21:46 +0200, Richard Hipp wrote: On 8/23/17, j. van den hoff wrote: unable to create directory /var It is trying to create a temporary file in which to store the one of the two sides of the diff. Can you trace the problem by

Re: [fossil-users] strange problem with graphical diff

2017-08-23 Thread Andy Goth
I would also suggest finding an old version of Fossil that doesn't exhibit the problem and using bisect to pinpoint when the behavior changed. On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > On 8/23/17, j. van den hoff wrote: > > unable to create

Re: [fossil-users] strange problem with graphical diff

2017-08-23 Thread Richard Hipp
On 8/23/17, j. van den hoff wrote: > unable to create directory /var > It is trying to create a temporary file in which to store the one of the two sides of the diff. Can you trace the problem by running in a debugger? -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org

[fossil-users] strange problem with graphical diff

2017-08-23 Thread j. van den hoff
today I have stumbled over this problem: issuing something like fossil gdiff --from 823c95ff8a --to eac7dff4fe yields the terminal output (in this example): 8<- Index: Makefile == unable to create directory /var 8<- and that's