On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Jared Harder <jared.har...@gmail.com>wrote:
> @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 showed up in > the new branch with the changes applied. > > So perhaps it works because of the changes I made as per Richard's > instructions? If that's the case, I should be able to create new branches > in my existing repository? Also, how can I have other users select the > appropriate branch to check in to? Is there a bit of a walkthrough > explaining how to use branches from within Fossil? > If the _FOSSIL_ with repository set to '/home/drh/sqlite/fossil.fossil' was up-directory from where you executed the steps then yes, without deleting that file I think you would have seen the same error again. For example in the example tree drawn below the _FOSSIL_ file in "dir1" will cause you problems if you attempted to open your repo in dir4. This is generally true - do not open a fossil inside another fossil controlled area unless you know exactly what you are doing. -- dir1 |-- dir2 | `-- dir4 | `-- _FOSSIL_ |-- dir3 | `-- dir4 `-- _FOSSIL Now all your users need to do it clone and open your new repo and then do: fossil co <yourbranch> Where <yourbranch> is the name of the branch to be worked on. I couldn't find any simple, step by step, branching and merging tutorial for fossil but the following will get you there with a little reading: Read Jim Schimpf's excellent book on fossil, the free pdf is here: http://www.fossil-scm.org/schimpf-book/doc/tip/fossilbook.pdf More detail about branching/forking is available on the fossil wiki: http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/branching.wiki Matt -=- > @Richard: Alright, I've deleted that _FOSSIL_ file. Should I bother > getting the newest source and rebuilding, or should I be safe to carry on? > > Thanks! > > Jared > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 18:48, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Jared Harder <jared.har...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> No matter what command I try, the error message is always the same: >>>> ./fossil: repository does not exist or is in an unreadable directory: >>>> /home/drh/sqlite/fossil.fossil >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Very curious. The /home/drh/sqlite/fossil.fossil pathname is the location >>> of the Fossil repository for Fossil on a machine that I was using as my >>> desktop up until about 2 months ago. So I thought perhaps I had used that >>> name in an example script somewhere. But grep is not finding it. And that >>> pathname is not found anywhere (that I can find) in the canonical Fossil >>> repository on http://www.fossil-scm.org/. I'm very eager to learn how >>> Jared got a checkout that thinks its repository is located at >>> /home/drh/sqlite/fossil.fossil. >>> >> >> Joe Mistachkin solved this mystery. The source tarballs from the download >> page were built incorrectly - they included the _FOSSIL_ file from my >> development folder. And that _FOSSIL_ file points to the repository on >> /home/drh/sqlite/fossil.fossil. Apparently, Jared built from the source >> tarball. >> >> I've fixed the most recent tarball and deleted all the prior ones. >> (Source tarballs can still be obtained directly from Fossil using the >> /tarball web method, of course.) >> >> Jared: You need to find the _FOSSIL_ file in the source directory and >> delete it. >> >> >>> >>> Can you give us more information about where your repository came from, >>> Jared? >>> >>> -- >>> D. Richard Hipp >>> d...@sqlite.org >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> D. Richard Hipp >> d...@sqlite.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fossil-users mailing list >> fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org >> http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > >
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