Hello there, My name is Damien Pendleton, a hobbiest Windows software developer from the UK. Although I have not yet made any noteworthy products, I have made small utilities throughout the years, on and off, until now. Being totally blind since birth, one of my greatest passions is accessible games. Therefore I decided to set up a system where me and a few of my friends could collaborate on this new project of a game that I had in mind. I was recommended by another friend to Fossil, which I began using in January, and I have never looked back. Even with smaller projects the amount of times I wished I could have reverted to that part of code that worked better, or split my code into branches etc. It is only recently that I threw myself face down into the work, and so I decided to look at some of the Fossil documentation. Some of it gave me a basic grasp of some features that I didn’t know existed, while some commands in the command line I can’t seem to find covered sufficiently enough for me to get a good understanding of it without going into the complete ins and outs and doing some in-depth searches. I joined this list so that I could hopefully get a bit more insight as to how Fossil works, as well as tips about how and when to use its more advanced features. As it happens, I have a few questions on my mind at the moment, that I’m hoping somebody can help me with.
1. I understand that Fossil repositories can more or less have thousands upon thousands of commits, which could make this question sound daft, but I will ask anyway since my project isn’t yet this big. Is there any way to dump all, or at least several commits onto disk at once, whether through updates, checkouts, zip archives etc? 2. Exactly how much memory is needed to generate a zip file of approximately 750MB? When I’m trying to zip any commit of or over that size I am getting a “Fossil internal error out of memory” message, despite that at the time I had 2.6GB free, and over a terabyte of free disk space. Fossil itself was reportedly only using approximately 350MB before it came up with the message. I tried several things, including closing down some memory consuming processes and even rebooting the machine, but to no avail. I wonder if it has anything to do with me hosting my own Fossil server on there, though even the Fossil server was using minimal memory (around 850KB). Any help would be greatly appreciated. If I’ve overlooked any information that you need to help me troubleshoot this issue, let me know. Thanks. Kind regards, Damien.
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