Re: [fossil-users] Shun old versions of (large) binary files
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 06:17:07PM +0200, Marco Maggesi wrote: Hi, first of all let me say that fossil is an excellent piece of software. I use it everyday. Thank you for developing and supporting fossil. I have a small problem and i wonder if it can be easily solved. (Perhaps with some clever usage of branch and tags etc.) My question is: Is it possible to selectively shun all binary files that exceed a certain age? Here selectively means files that are stored under a given directory or are tagged in some way. In that case, I'd deconstruct, and try to get a list of the biggest artifacts, easy to do once they became files. ___ 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] Shun old versions of (large) binary files
On Jul 16, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Remigiusz Modrzejewski wrote: On Jul 14, 2011, at 18:17 , Marco Maggesi wrote: I use fossil to host some latex documents and it is very practical for me to store in the fossil repository the generated pdf documents together with the latex sources. However, as the time passes, these old versions lose interest and they make the fossil repository uselessly large. I suppose that a similar problem can arise in other cases. E.g. when you want to distribute through fossil an up to date compiled version of your software. While this could be useful, don't expect current Fossil developers to jump on it. It's been stated that Fossil is not a distribution tool, neither a package building tool, thus features dedicated to that are out of scope. And as there are not many frequent contributors, they'd better keep their focus on the things Fossil aims at. On the other hand, this is OSS. You can just go for it :) I understand this. Fossil has a clear and explicit focus to software development. This contribute to make fossil a good and well designed software, so I don't regret for this policy. Sometimes it just happens that applications can easily handle situations for which they are not designed for, perhaps in a way that you wouldn't thought at first. That's why I asked to the mailing list before to give up. But if it is not the case, I will find another solution. Kind regards, Remigiusz Modrzejewski Thank you, Marco ___ 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] Shun old versions of (large) binary files
On Jul 17, 2011, at 9:40 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 06:17:07PM +0200, Marco Maggesi wrote: My question is: Is it possible to selectively shun all binary files that exceed a certain age? Here selectively means files that are stored under a given directory or are tagged in some way. In that case, I'd deconstruct, and try to get a list of the biggest artifacts, easy to do once they became files. This is interesting, I didn't know about deconstruct. I just tried but I was not able to get the metadata in a easy way, e.g., the name of the file or the creation date. This requires some analysis on the whole set of artifacts, I guess. Nonetheless it can be easily used to shun all artifacts that contains a pdf file, I think. Perhaps I should look at the format of artifacts an I could devise a SQL query which quickly and easily perform the job. But I don't have enough time to invest on this at the moment, so I rather try to solve the problem in a more pedestrian way. At least for now. Thanks, M. ___ 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] Shun old versions of (large) binary files
On Jul 14, 2011, at 18:17 , Marco Maggesi wrote: I use fossil to host some latex documents and it is very practical for me to store in the fossil repository the generated pdf documents together with the latex sources. However, as the time passes, these old versions lose interest and they make the fossil repository uselessly large. I suppose that a similar problem can arise in other cases. E.g. when you want to distribute through fossil an up to date compiled version of your software. While this could be useful, don't expect current Fossil developers to jump on it. It's been stated that Fossil is not a distribution tool, neither a package building tool, thus features dedicated to that are out of scope. And as there are not many frequent contributors, they'd better keep their focus on the things Fossil aims at. On the other hand, this is OSS. You can just go for it :) Kind regards, Remigiusz Modrzejewski ___ 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] Shun old versions of (large) binary files
2011/7/16 Remigiusz Modrzejewski l...@maxnet.org.pl: On Jul 14, 2011, at 18:17 , Marco Maggesi wrote: I use fossil to host some latex documents and it is very practical for me to store in the fossil repository the generated pdf documents together with the latex sources. However, as the time passes, these old versions lose interest and they make the fossil repository uselessly large. I suppose that a similar problem can arise in other cases. E.g. when you want to distribute through fossil an up to date compiled version of your software. While this could be useful, don't expect current Fossil developers to jump on it. It's been stated that Fossil is not a distribution tool, neither a package building tool, thus features dedicated to that are out of scope. And as there are not many frequent contributors, they'd better keep their focus on the things Fossil aims at. On the other hand, this is OSS. You can just go for it :) Kind regards, Remigiusz Modrzejewski ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users -- Alexander Vladimirov idkfa at idkfa dot org dot ru ___ 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] Shun old versions of (large) binary files
sry, mail sent by mistake =) 2011/7/16 Alexander Vladimirov id...@idkfa.org.ru: 2011/7/16 Remigiusz Modrzejewski l...@maxnet.org.pl: On Jul 14, 2011, at 18:17 , Marco Maggesi wrote: I use fossil to host some latex documents and it is very practical for me to store in the fossil repository the generated pdf documents together with the latex sources. However, as the time passes, these old versions lose interest and they make the fossil repository uselessly large. I suppose that a similar problem can arise in other cases. E.g. when you want to distribute through fossil an up to date compiled version of your software. While this could be useful, don't expect current Fossil developers to jump on it. It's been stated that Fossil is not a distribution tool, neither a package building tool, thus features dedicated to that are out of scope. And as there are not many frequent contributors, they'd better keep their focus on the things Fossil aims at. On the other hand, this is OSS. You can just go for it :) Kind regards, Remigiusz Modrzejewski ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users -- Alexander Vladimirov idkfa at idkfa dot org dot ru -- Alexander Vladimirov idkfa at idkfa dot org dot ru ___ 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] Shun old versions of (large) binary files
On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:36:26 +0200, Remigiusz Modrzejewski wrote: On Jul 14, 2011, at 18:17 , Marco Maggesi wrote: I use fossil to host some latex documents and it is very practical for me to store in the fossil repository the generated pdf documents together with the latex sources. However, as the time passes, these old versions lose interest and they make the fossil repository uselessly large. I suppose that a similar problem can arise in other cases. E.g. when you want to distribute through fossil an up to date compiled version of your software. While this could be useful, don't expect current Fossil developers to jump on it. It's been stated that Fossil is not a distribution tool, neither a package building tool, thus features dedicated to that are out of scope. And as there are not many frequent contributors, they'd better keep their focus on the things Fossil aims at. On the other hand, this is OSS. You can just go for it :) Kind regards, Remigiusz Modrzejewski ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users what you could do is serving the documents from outside you repository. e.g. like the download page for fossil. The pdf can always be recreated from the sources -- Rene ___ 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] Shun old versions of (large) binary files
On Jul 16, 2011, at 15:47 , Rene wrote: what you could do is serving the documents from outside you repository. e.g. like the download page for fossil. The pdf can always be recreated from the sources That last statement is sadly far from truth :( Anyhow that's the current solution for this problem. A much smarter thing to implement in Fossil would be: make a space for unversioned files that would be propagated along the source tree. It would solve a lot of practical issues (like keeping javascript for Fossil UI inside source tree, yuck!) and not be a hack like anything shun-based. One day I might actually try to do this, but it's certainly not going to be soon :/ Kind regards, Remigiusz Modrzejewski ___ 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] Shun old versions of (large) binary files
I'd also love a function like that. Me too, I have large binary files which get obsolete after some time. They make the fossil rep very big and awkward to handle. Thank you Daniel -Original Message- From: Marco Maggesi Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 12:17 PM To: fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org Subject: [fossil-users] Shun old versions of (large) binary files Hi, first of all let me say that fossil is an excellent piece of software. I use it everyday. Thank you for developing and supporting fossil. I have a small problem and i wonder if it can be easily solved. (Perhaps with some clever usage of branch and tags etc.) My question is: Is it possible to selectively shun all binary files that exceed a certain age? Here selectively means files that are stored under a given directory or are tagged in some way. I use fossil to host some latex documents and it is very practical for me to store in the fossil repository the generated pdf documents together with the latex sources. However, as the time passes, these old versions lose interest and they make the fossil repository uselessly large. I suppose that a similar problem can arise in other cases. E.g. when you want to distribute through fossil an up to date compiled version of your software. Thank you, Marco ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
[fossil-users] Shun old versions of (large) binary files
Hi, first of all let me say that fossil is an excellent piece of software. I use it everyday. Thank you for developing and supporting fossil. I have a small problem and i wonder if it can be easily solved. (Perhaps with some clever usage of branch and tags etc.) My question is: Is it possible to selectively shun all binary files that exceed a certain age? Here selectively means files that are stored under a given directory or are tagged in some way. I use fossil to host some latex documents and it is very practical for me to store in the fossil repository the generated pdf documents together with the latex sources. However, as the time passes, these old versions lose interest and they make the fossil repository uselessly large. I suppose that a similar problem can arise in other cases. E.g. when you want to distribute through fossil an up to date compiled version of your software. Thank you, Marco ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
