Is anyone interested in a diff with this functionality?  I don't mind
digging into the code, but I don't want to waste my time if it goes
against a core idea of Fossil.  I'd just like the option of using it
with nothing external-facing other than SSH.


On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 03:07:41PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello all!
> 
> I'm currently using fossil in a way which I think is somewhat
> nonstandard, but had a feature request that could potentially be useful
> to others as well.
> 
> Rather than having a central, pseudo-public facing process, we are using
> fossil exclusively behind SSH.  There is a shared account
> ([email protected]) with PKI, and we all have default user accounts to
> track changes (fossil user default xxx).  The reason for this is that
> the codebase is sensitive, and we prefer to keep services behind
> ipsec/ssh when possible.  Fossil supports ssh pretty well, so we
> determined this is easier for some of our non-technical users to get up
> and running.
> 
> For developers, this process works great.  Autosync performs flawlessly,
> and we go about our business.  However when filing tickets through the
> UI, a "fossil sync" seems to be mandatory.  My request is that tickets
> also get pushed via an autosync function on changes.
> 
> Also, I was pleasantly surprised to find that fossil has a
> statically-linked flavor on OpenBSD, which makes it trivial to chroot
> via ssh.  We have had nightmares in the past trying to do this with git
> (why does it need /dev/random access!?, and no, git-shell doesn't count).
> 
> Thanks everyone who helped make fossil possible.  We have quite enjoyed
> it thus far :)
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