Re: [fossil-users] Web UI Refresh Issue
On 08.11.2011 19:15, Shaun Mahood wrote: > > Hi, not sure if this is the right place for this (please redirect me if not). > I've noticed that the main web UI for Fossil does not seem to be loading > consistently for me -- it seems to pick 1 of 3 states. > > - Load everything > > - Load everything except the CSS styles > > - Load everything except the logo > > > > I am using a custom style found at > http://kott.fm/tomek/2011/05/22/setting-fossil-up-with-style/ and using > Firefox 7.0.1, running Windows XP and using the "fossil server" command. > > > > I am also using my own logo which is 34 KB. Anyone else run into this, or is > it based on my specific setup and customizations? > > > I've seen something similar in WinFossil which also uses the fossil server command to display the Web UI. WinFossil uses the .NET WebBrowser component (Internet Explorer) to display the results. Sometimes it doesn't load anything at all after it is started. Refresh then most of the times loads the page as plain HTML without CSS. An other refresh might load the page as expected. Sometimes it starts with plain HTML without CSS. Refresh then also might or might not load the page as expected. Once the start page is loaded correctly, all other pages are loaded correctly too. Most of the time it works as expected. Regards, Ingo ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Annoucement: Fuel GUI Client
On 08.10.2011 13:04, Gilles wrote: > On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 19:14:48 +0900, Kostas Karanikolas > wrote: >> Since there's been some interest lately in alternative GUI tools for Fossil >> I'd like to take this opportunity to announce Fuel a cross-platform GUI >> client >> for Fossil. > I unzipped and launched 0.9.4 on Windows, and it displays the familiar > "Fuel.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry > for the inconvenience. [...] Please tell Microsoft about this > problem.". > > Are there some additional files/steps I should install/perform before > running Fuel? I think that Fuel has the same problem with your checkout that WinFossil has: Too many files to check to display the file status icons. As I wrote, with the approach to make the drives root your checkout root no GUI client will serve you well. Regards, Ingo ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] GUI client for Windows?
On 07.10.2011 01:09, Gilles wrote: > On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 11:01:43 -0400, Tomek Kott > wrote: >> Yep, it should. It's worked for me for all of the repo's I've tried. > So I guess WinFossil doesn't work when the repo is opened at the root > of a partition that contains a lot of directories because it will go > through each one looking for files that are under source control... > which can take a look time, and can even fail if a directory contains > characters it doesn't like. WinFossil works if you give it time enough to do its job. ;-) By making the drives root folder the checkout root you decided to make all the files on the drive a maybe part of the repository. What WinFossil does is to scan the checkout for unknown, added, deleted, changed ... files to give you all the neat icons to decide where to go and what to do. To display the folder status, the status of the files down to the deepest nested folders is propagated to the toplevel folders. If your repository root is the drive, obviously all files of that drive are scanned and on top of fossil processing all the files there is WinFossil processing the information too to provide a graphical representation of the folder structure and the status of the files. That's what freezes the UI if you have a lot of files on that drive. Running "fossil extras" from the root directory will also scan the whole drive for files which are not part of the repository. The command line where you issued the command will also look like frozen. I've just checked that on my data drive and it took about four minutes for fossil to scan the whole drive for extra files. I think that you're using the wrong approach to version your files. You don't need the Windows folder or other system folders to be under revision control, right? Normally you have a well defined set of files and folders which are subject to revision control. Try it this way: Anything which should be under revision control is located in a dedicated subdirectory, name it Data, Documents, Projects or whatever you like. This folder should be the root for your repository. Even better: build dedicated repositories for each of your projects/tasks/workflows or whatever you name it. If you insist on using the drives root as your checkout root, then WinFossil is not your fossil Windows GUI and I think no other GUI will be. They all will have the same problem with collecting the data necessary to provide a graphical representation of the file and folder status. Regarding the file/folder name characters for which the scan may fail: Richard already answered this one. It is fossil which doesn't like them for good reasons. ;-) Regards, Ingo ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] any interest in integrating jimtcl w/fossil?
On 09/21/11 20:16, Martin S. Weber wrote: > Absolutely. Rest assured, I do: > > On 09/20/11 15:00, Martin S. Weber wrote: > > Of course if you're an IDE person, you'll > > appreciate easier integration with, say, the behemothian eclipse, the > > leviathan netbeans, the Zizian IDEA or the all-encompassing emacs. > > Sorry I forgot to mention the humongous VisualXXX ;) > LOL, sorry that I missed the mentioned post. :-) Regards, Ingo ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] any interest in integrating jimtcl w/fossil?
On 09/20/11 15:53, Martin S. Weber wrote: > On 09/20/11 19:20, Steve Bennett wrote: >> It is the interface to fossil which is important. > > Yep. That's where step #1 comes in - librarization of fossil. Luckily I'll > have time for that (at least rounding up an API suggestion) next week. Please keep in mind that such an API should not only help implementing language bindings for fossil but should also support tool makers. I'm working on a C# library to use fossil commands and a Windows GUI for fossil (with the goal of Visual Studio integration) and I really miss a library like the one that exists for SQLite. Implementing tools around fossil would be so much easier if a library would be available. An other thing: Seeing how much fossil developer related traffic currently is on the mailing list, maybe it is time to setup a new fossil-deve...@lists.fossil-scm.org ? I think it would make sense to split because users looking for answers regarding their day to day usage problems and not being directly interested in development of fossil should not be bothered with development topics. Maybe someone of the active developers asks Richard to set up a new list? Regards, Ingo ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Presentation slides for Fossil?
On 08.09.2011 11:41, Stephan Beal wrote: > Hi, all, > > i remember at least one or two list members mentioning (in the relatively far > past) doing presentations on Fossil. This question is for them... > > The company i work for allows us to propose so-called R&D topics, where we get > a few days of budget to go research a topic (typically a new/up-coming tech) > and then make a presentation about it to whoever wants to come listen. While i > can't make a business case for fossil here (meaning i won't get an R&D > budget), the company has several program-at-home-at-night guys like myself who > could certainly make use of it if they only knew about it, and i'd like to put > together a presentation for them. Basically, "how to set up and get started > with fossil." > > So my question is: have any of you got some slides i can steal to get a head > start? Because i won't have an R&D budget, i'll be putting together the > presentation on my own time and i'm looking for a way to cut a few corners :). > Though the presentation would be made internally, i can see no reason why the > slides created for it should (in this case) remain internal, and i would of > course be happy to make them available online. > Take a look at http://arnebachmann.pytalhost.de/pdf/integrated-version-control-with-fossil-scm.pdf Hope that helps, Ingo ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] login failure when trying to pull
On 02.07.2011 00:33, Rene wrote: > 1) It is a big nono to open a repo next to the repo e.g. your >> ADMINUSR@SPHINX:~/fsl/wa-pull $ fossil open pulledrep.fossil > should be mkdir src; cd src ; fossil open ../pulledrep.fossil Could you please enlighten me why it is a big nono to open the repository in the same directory that holds the repository? I'm doing it almost all the time and I've never encountered any problems. Regards, Ingo ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Help install fossil as window service
On 01.06.2011 17:37, Steeve St-Laurent wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install fossil as a window service. > > i sucessfully created the service with this command > > sc create fossil binPaht="GoodPath\fossil.exe server" > > but when i start the fossil service i get this error > > *Error* 1053: The *service* did not respond to the start or control request in > a timely fashion. > > What did i do wrong ? You can't register an arbitrary program directly as a Windows service. Every Windows service has to implement at least two functions which are called by the service manager to start and stop the service. Fossil obviously does not implement those functions, so it doesn't respond to the service manager as expected. There are programs available which implement those functions and can then run an arbitrary program. Just do a search for "run windows program as a service" Ingo ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] SharpFossil/WinFossil
Am 10.05.2011 02:24, schrieb Jeff Slutter:
> On 5/9/2011 8:15 PM, Matt Welland wrote:
>> Rather than changing the terminal user interface (it will be slightly
>> less nice IMHO due to the extra newline on a prompt) I suggest
>> considering the approach used on the monotone project. A separate
>> interface for automation. Make the human friendly interface friendly
>> to humans and make the automation interface friendly to automation.
> I agree, you don't want to mess up the text for the normal command line
> user. I suggest doing something similar to Perforce with it's tagged
> text output ("-z tag") ripe for parsing, or, just testing to see if
> adding fflush(stdout); fflush(stderr); instead of adding tacking on a
> newline. This will hopefully cause the parent process to receive the
> child output.
Unfortunately fflush(stdout) doesn't help. It is part of the prompt_user
function since day one.
For now, I think I'll do it with my small change. It works and has near to no
impact on the fossil code base. The prompt_user function doesn't look like it
will be changed in the future. An additional flag for parsing friendly output
would require changes in a number of commands and IMHO is not an option until
there are more projects which require this.
Ingo
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Re: [fossil-users] SharpFossil/WinFossil
> Ingo, > > This seems like a reasonable change to Fossil as long as adding it doesn't > break anything we don't understand (I can't believe it would). No, it won't break anything. The only difference is that on the commandline the users answer has to be entered on a new line and not on the same line as the prompt. > Propose it as a change and get Richard Hipp's feedback. Maybe you should try > to become a Fossil contributor and make the change yourself so there doesn't > have to be a custom Fossil build. I've already added a ticket as a feature request a while ago. I won't conjecture about the reasons not to include this change. After all it is Richard's project. I'll try to always include a modified Windows binary release of the latest official Fossil release version into my project. Anyone who doesn't trust this exe might compile it himself. ;-) As I mentioned, SharpFossil and WinFossil are far away from beeing complete or bug free. And as long as there is one user (me ;-) ) it doesn't make sense to beg Richard again and again to change anything in Fossil to support SharpFossil. The main purpose of my original post to the list was to encourage Windows users of Fossil to try SharpFossil/WinFossil and to get feedback about it and may be to get people involved in further development (for me, it is a spare time project and unfortunately not evolving fast enough) . Ingo ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] SharpFossil/WinFossil
> CR/LF - very windows specific > LF - is very common on other platforms (*nix) > CR - Mac specific I think > > Without checking is it possible that you are receiving just the LF which you > should be able to parse on with stdout output. If there is no CR/LF,LF, or CR > then I think one of these would be considered a reasonable enhancement to > Fossil. It just may that the right choice isn't CR/LF. The modification I've made is to add a '\n' to the prompt. So it is sufficient to add a LF even on the Windows platform. Ingo ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] SharpFossil/WinFossil
Am 08.05.2011 16:54, schrieb Jeff Slutter: >> I've included the zlib1.dll into the WinFossil.zip file. >> What do you mean by "I was unable to run the WinFossil binary"? >> I'm developing and using it on Win7 x64. Do you get any error message, >> exception >> or something like that? >> > The Fossil.exe included in WinFossil.zip now works for me. > > As for WinFossil.exe, as soon as I double click it, it crashes and I get > a standard Windows message box saying "WinFossil has stopped working. > Windows is checking for a solution to the problem...". Running the > executable via an instance of the MSVS2008 debugger reveals a > BadImageFormatException: > > An unhandled exception of type 'System.BadImageFormatException' occurred > in WinFossil.exe > Additional information: Could not load file or assembly > 'System.Data.SQLite, Version=1.0.66.0, Culture=neutral, > PublicKeyToken=db937bc2d44ff139' or one of its dependencies. An attempt > was made to load a program with an incorrect format. > > I'm confused though why it would work for you, and not me. Other than, > perhaps, on your machine it is finding the x64 System.Data.SQLite behind > the scenes, perhaps from the GAC. > > Seeing these errors in the past, and knowing that System.Data.SQLite is > a native assembly (it is either x86, or x64), to fix the error, you need > to explicitly set the "Platform target:" field to x86 (in the > Properties|Build tab of WinFossil's Project Properties), and then make > sure you distribute the System.Data.SQLite x86 assembly (as you already > are). Optionally, you could provide both x86 and x64 assemblies of > System.Data.SQLite and let the user choose the right one based on their > platform. That's what happens if you test and use software on the development system :-( I got caught in that trap two years ago but I forgot it until you mentioned it. I've uploaded a modified version which has been tested on a 32 bit Windows XP VM too. Ingo ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] SharpFossil/WinFossil
>> For details and download see >> http://repository.mobile-developers.de/cgi-bin/ikoch/sharpfossil >> Please clone and play with it. Any response is welcome. > Great stuff, I'm definitely interested in something like this, I'll have > to take a look. Two things: > > 1) I was unable to run the WinFossil binary you made available for > download (Win7, x64). However, I also realized I wasn't able to run the > fossil.exe you provided also because it is dependent on zlib1.dll, which > I do not have on my system. Static link perhaps? I've included the zlib1.dll into the WinFossil.zip file. What do you mean by "I was unable to run the WinFossil binary"? I'm developing and using it on Win7 x64. Do you get any error message, exception or something like that? > 2) This is to the Fossil community, would it be possible to get into the > main branch of Fossil the minor change necessary for this project? That > is, placing a CR/LF at the end of request printfs so that processes that > spawn Fossil.exe programmatically can process over the stdout/stdin. > Perhaps some command line argument to enable this? I already suggested the modification in a feature request some time ago: http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/tktview?name=2857ab0995 Regards, Ingo ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
[fossil-users] SharpFossil/WinFossil
Hi all, for all those who are missing a Visual Studio integration of fossil, I started a project to provide a C# wrapper around the fossil command line. The long term goal is to provide a SccProvider for VS. As a prove of concept for the lib I've also added a Windows application which uses SharpFossil to provide a graphical interface for the fossil comands. Neither SharpFossil (the wrapper library) nor WinFossil (the Windows UI for fossil) are complete, but they already have some features which might be useful. If you want to try it, please be aware of the fact that you need a slightly modified version of fossil (reasons for this on the website mentioned below) which is included into the repository and the distribution zip file. I'd like to invite anyone who is interested in Windows/Visual Studio integration to participate. Take a look and test it with your environment, submit bug reports ore feature requests, be part of the development team (to be build ;-) ) ... For details and download see http://repository.mobile-developers.de/cgi-bin/ikoch/sharpfossil Please clone and play with it. Any response is welcome. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Versioning without files
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Ingo Koch wrote:
>
>> I'm working on a C# wrapper library around fossil
>> and I encountered some commands which require user input.
>>
> Tell me about these commands when you encounter them and I'll add
> command-line options to work around the user input.
I think it would be easier to modify the function
void prompt_user(const char *zPrompt, Blob *pIn){
...
printf("%s", zPrompt); // change to printf("%s\n", zPrompt);
...
}
You could include a setting like prompt-with-newline defaulting to false to let
the users decide whether to insert a newline after the prompt or not.
Anyhow, here is a list of the prompts from within command execution:
void branch_new(void){
...
prompt_user("unable to sign manifest. continue (y/N)? ", &ans);
...
}
void clean_cmd(void){
...
char *prompt = mprintf("remove unmanaged file \"%s\" (y/N)? ",
db_column_text(&q, 0));
blob_zero(&ans);
prompt_user(prompt, &ans);
...
}
void commit_cmd(void){
...
prompt_user("continue in spite of sync failure (y/N)? ", &ans);
...
prompt_user("continue in spite of time skew (y/N)? ", &ans);
...
prompt_user("empty check-in comment. continue (y/N)? ", &ans);
...
prompt_user("unable to sign manifest. continue (y/N)? ", &ans);
...
}
int ssl_open(void){
...
prompt = mprintf("\nUnknown SSL certificate:\n\n%s\n\n%s\n"
"Accept certificate [a=always/y/N]? ", desc, warning);
BIO_free(mem);
prompt_user(prompt, &ans);
...
}
void scrub_cmd(void){
...
prompt_user("Scrubbing the repository will permanently remove user\n"
"passwords and other information. Changes cannot be undone.\n"
"Continue (y/N)? ", &ans);
...
}
void user_cmd(void){
...
prompt_user("login: ", &login);
...
prompt_user("contact-info: ", &contact);
...
}
called by checkout (and open which calls checkout), merge and update:
void vfile_to_disk(
...
zMsg = mprintf("overwrite %s (a=always/y/N)? ", zName);
prompt_user(zMsg, &ans);
...
}
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Re: [fossil-users] Versioning without files
Am 11.01.2011 18:45, schrieb Stephan Beal: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:44 PM, David Bovill wrote: > >> In my case I'd like to be able to keep track of script elements, handlers, >> functions, methods, classes etc and not the files they happen to be inin >> a db is much the same, but I am wandering how I can use the db to store >> metadata such as the files the function is found in, so that I can link the >> script elements to these files. >> > IIRC, one user recently posted that he [ab]used the wiki in that manner. He > stored some metadata in wiki pages and fished it out from there. > > If your IDE interface to DVCSs is shell/command based, fossil shouldn't pose > any particular problems for you. That's not the full truth. I'm working on a C# wrapper library around fossil and I encountered some commands which require user input. My problem is that on Windows I can't read the line containing fossils prompt because it isn't terminated by a newline. The Process class I'm using to run fossil only provides an event which is fired after a newline is read from stdout or stderr. I've compiled my own version of fossil where a newline is added to the prompt, so that I can implement the wrapper without waiting for my feature request to be implemented ;) An other pitfall may be the many different answers fossil generates as a response to the different commands. They are readable for human beings, but a wrapper has to parse them, it has to be prepared for different kinds of output layout even for one command when used with different switches, it has to separate information from eye candy and so on and so on. I thought it would be easier as it is. > However, fossil is a monolithic > application, as opposed to a library with a CLI front-end, which makes it > essentially impossible to write anything _except_ shell-based add-ons for > it. Two or three years ago (has it been that long already!?!?!?) i looked > very closely at how to refactor fossil as a library+app, but by that point > fossil was already so large that the effort involved would have been > tremendous (and fossil has always evolved quickly, so it would not only be a > big target, but a fast-moving one). Such a refactor/rewrite would, however, > make things like GUIs much easier to write. I second this. A library version of fossil is on top of my wish list. Ingo ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
[fossil-users] Prevent the hex dump of binary files
Hi all, being new to fossil, there is a big chance that I'm doing something wrong. ;-) May be you can help me: I've set up a repository for a project that beside the source files has a lot of binary files like pdf or doc files. What I see when I click on the corresponding link in the files view is a hex dump of the file. That's pretty useless for me and rather time consuming if you have big binary files. I could avoid this by just not clicking on those file links. But: I've attached one of the documents to a wiki page to access the doc from the wiki documentation pages. The result was a new section on the wiki page called Attachments with something which looked like a link to the document. Clicking on the link teleported me to the page of the artifact I've checked in before. Again I see the hex dump of the file, which still is useless for me and I guess for anyone else too. Meanwhile I've managed how to embedd links to the stored binaries on the wiki pages so that I'm offered to download or open them, but the hex dump on the artifact pages still bothers me. Question: Is there anything I can do to prevent the display of the hex dump for binary files? An other question directed to the maintainer: Is there any chance that fossil will be split into a frontend like fossil.exe and a library fossil.dll which has a well defined API so that other applications could use fossil without calling fossil.exe and parsing the output to see what happened? The reason I'm asking is that (after years of using CVS and now Subversion) I really like the DVCS approach and fossil with the integrated bug tracking and wiki is what I missed for so long. I'd like to introduce it in the company I'm working for, but those who got access to a test project griped about the lack of support for their favorite development environment. Especially the windows developers are not amused if they have to switch to the command line to do anything related to version control. They want to do a right click on the file or project and select commit from a menu. They want to enter the commit message in a dialog box instead of providing it on the command line. You can imagine ... I thought about writing a C# wrapper to do all the tasks by calling the fossil.exe and provide an interface to implement a SccProvider for Visual Studio, but that's quite difficult due to the variety of possible answers from fossil which have to be parsed. A well defined API like the one for SQLite would make things a lot easier. I think that fossil could be even more attractive for developers if there would be an easier way to integrate it into other applications. Nevertheless, thanks for fossil. It's a great peace of software. Ingo ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
