May be you can set 'Gary_Gabriel_Dev' as the default user for this repo. $ fossil user default Gary_Gabriel_Dev
-- Martin G. (From a mobile: Excuse brevity and top posting.) Le mercredi 13 mai 2015, Gary_Gabriel <gabrielrobert.qu...@googlemail.com> a écrit : > Hi Warren, > > Thanks for your help and comments. I tried your tip , and checked the > user name again, the repo is installed on a PC with another user name. But > irregardless of what I tried; Fossil replies with "no such user: > Gary_Gabriel_Dev". The details follow. > > Fossil attempts to guess the correct user name from several environment >> variables: FOSSIL_USER, USER, LOGNAME, then USERNAME, in that order. The >> first one that succeeds is used. >> >> If none of these is set correctly with respect to your Fossil user scheme >> (i.e. Fossil users and your local LDAP user names are different) you can >> override this guessing game with the “fossil user default” command. >> > > I added a new user with the current user name, but the same error(1) > continues. Here are the console results after adding the new user with a > current user name. > > First after using your suggestion; Fossil did not recognize the user: > "fossil user default Gary_Gabriel_Dev" > "no such user: Gary_Gabriel_Dev" > > Now checking to see if the new user entry was successful: > "fossil user list" > "Gary Gabriel > Gary_Gabriel_Dev > anonymous Anon > developer Dev > nobody Nobody > reader Reader" > > I do not understand the problem. "Gary_Gabriel_Dev" is the valid PC user > name and is recognized by "fossil user list". However the commit command > fails and Fossil continues to reply "no such user: Gary_Gabriel_Dev". Or- > Fossil refuses the commit with the comment: > "Cannot figure out who you are! Consider using the --user > command line option, setting your USER environment variable, > or setting a default user with "fossil user default USER"." > > > For completeness I replied to your thoughtful tips. > > It is telling you that there is no file called >> C20131_IR_At7_OpSystem_ProjectFile.fossil in the current directory. >> > > But the file is there confirmed by "fossil ls". > > > You probably do not mean to be checking one Fossil repo into another >> Fossil repo anyway. I’m guessing that you are passing that parameter by >> mistake, thinking that you are telling Fossil which repo to make the >> checkin on. >> >> If you want to make a checkin on a particular Fossil repo, you need to be >> making that checkin from within the directory where you said >> >> fossil open /path/to/C20131_IR_At7_OpSystem_ProjectFile.fossil >> > > Previous to the posted commands; I cd'ed to the correct directory where > the repo is and checked repo file availability with "fossil ls" and "fossil > status". The console returned the confirmation of the open repo. > > "You probably do not mean to be checking one Fossil repo into another > Fossil repo anyway. I’m guessing that you are passing that parameter by > mistake, thinking that you are telling Fossil which repo to make the > checkin on." You're right. I thought the syntax was right. I have used this > statement with success, what is the correct syntax? > > I get this error[1] with a commit: >> fossil commit -m "12.05.2015. C20131_IR_At7_OpSystem_ProjectFile.tcl." >> --tag "C20131_IR_At7_OpSystem_ProjectFile" --allow-empty >> C20131_IR_At7_OpSystem_ProjectFile.fossil >> > > Do you mean --allow-empty? What change is fossil not seeing? What does >> Fossil say when you try to “fossil diff” that file, or ask “fossil finfo” >> on it? >> > > Yes- that is the command posted above, assuming the syntax in the commit > statement is correct. To workaround Fossil's refusal to commit; I made some > more changes to the source and tried again. But even after the changes; > Fossil did not detect the changes. But this is secondary to the problem. > > Fossil recognizes "--user "Gary Gabriel" “? >>> >> There is no such flag. >> > > This Fossil console comment refers to the flag "--user". > "Cannot figure out who you are! Consider using the --user > command line option, setting your USER environment variable, > or setting a default user with "fossil user default USER"." > > I appreciate your time and expertise, and it helped me along. > > - Gary Gabriel > _______________________________________________ > 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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