Holy cow, Richard -- you're fast on those "stupid user tricks" responses!
Oh, and uh ... oops. I mv'd it instead. Let's hope the other 2.5
emacs+fossil users don't make the same mistake.
--kkinnell
On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 12:22:01 -0700 Richard Hipp wrote:
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 3:12 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> I haven't been making many new repos lately, so I got a shock when I set
> one up and tried to do a checkin via Emacs.
>
> It turns out that the vc-fossil.el file assumes that the local
> housekeeping will be in ./_FOSSIL, so the change that defaults to
.fslckout
> in version [432306beca] leaves Emacs unable to figure out that it's in an
> open checkout.
>
> This is trivial to fix on the user side. The quickest fix is
probably 'ln
> -s .fslckout _FOSSIL_',
Please, No! That can lead to repository corruption! Never symbolically
link an SQLite database!
The quickest fix is this:
mv .fslckout _FOSSIL_
> after which everything works fine. The best fix (no holy warrior
> commentary) is probably to def-custom the file name in the vc module.
>
> Apologies if this has been covered, but I didn't find anything in the
> archives, so I thought I'd mention it for the sake of the other 2 1/2
emacs
> & fossil users out there...
>
> --kkinnell
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