Re: [fossil-users] problem with illegal characters

2012-03-09 Thread Gour
On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:53:21 +0100 Martijn Coppoolse li...@martijn.coppoolse.com wrote: Why is that a bad practice? Because there's programs (like Fossil) that won't let you work with them? The first three hits on Google with the query using brackets in filenames gives:

[fossil-users] Side-by-side with checked out content

2012-03-09 Thread Jos Groot Lipman
Is it possible to see a side-by-side difference between the last checkin and the currently changed file on disk? It would be a great alternative to fossil diff and fossil gdiff This would be much like the wiki preview using /doc/ckout/ -- Jos Groot Lipman

Re: [fossil-users] problem with illegal characters

2012-03-09 Thread Leo Razoumov
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 04:18, Gour g...@atmarama.net wrote: What do you mean 'pre-existing'? Software is created by you. Can you show me some sotware project using names with such funky characters? Gour, one size fits all does not work in real life. For instance, brackets, spaces, etc. are

Re: [fossil-users] problem with illegal characters

2012-03-09 Thread Ramon Ribó
Leo, I think that you have described fairly well the situation. I am a Unix/Windows user since the Silicon Graphics time. I would never put brackets on a file name. However, I fail to understand why the SCM tool should prohibit to do so to people that think differently. Specially on

Re: [fossil-users] problem with illegal characters

2012-03-09 Thread Stephan Beal
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Ramon Ribó ram...@compassis.com wrote: To create a fossil branch with the modification is a practical idea only if you are a lonely developer or in a very controlled team. How do you say to a new developer?: Please use fossil, but not the standard one, because

Re: [fossil-users] problem with illegal characters

2012-03-09 Thread Gour
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 06:51:14 -0500 Leo Razoumov slonik...@gmail.com wrote: one size fits all does not work in real life. I'm aware of it. For instance, brackets, spaces, etc. are used in file names generated by certain medical imagining machines. Do those 'medical' machines create text

Re: [fossil-users] problem with illegal characters

2012-03-09 Thread Leo Razoumov
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 07:11, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: Perhaps we could/should make the set of illegal characters a config option, defaulting to the current set? This may cause problem with globing. --Leo-- ___ fossil-users mailing

Re: [fossil-users] problem with illegal characters

2012-03-09 Thread Stephan Beal
Lol... coincidently i was just reading: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_49_0/libs/filesystem/v3/doc/tutorial.html and their tut5.cpp example demonstrates using \u263A (a smiley face!) in filenames. -- - stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal

Re: [fossil-users] Side-by-side with checked out content

2012-03-09 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 11:37:37 +0100 Jos Groot Lipman donts...@home.nl wrote: Is it possible to see a side-by-side difference between the last checkin and the currently changed file on disk? It would be a great alternative to fossil diff and fossil gdiff This would be much like the wiki

Re: [fossil-users] Side-by-side with checked out content

2012-03-09 Thread Stephan Beal
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov flatw...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Sorry for nitpicking, but I maintained an impression wiki pages are unversioned, only embedded documentation pages are and such preview of the checked out version is rather implemented for embedded

Re: [fossil-users] Side-by-side with checked out content

2012-03-09 Thread Richard Hipp
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Konstantin Khomoutov flatw...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 11:37:37 +0100 Jos Groot Lipman donts...@home.nl wrote: Is it possible to see a side-by-side difference between the last checkin and the currently changed file on disk? It would

Re: [fossil-users] Side-by-side with checked out content

2012-03-09 Thread Stephan Beal
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: It is theoretically possible to display a graph of changes to the wiki page, similar to the graphs that display on a timeline. And it is possible to have branches on a wiki page and to merge, etc. The underlying data format

Re: [fossil-users] Side-by-side with checked out content

2012-03-09 Thread Richard Hipp
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: It is theoretically possible to display a graph of changes to the wiki page, similar to the graphs that display on a timeline. And it is possible to

Re: [fossil-users] Side-by-side with checked out content

2012-03-09 Thread Jos Groot Lipman
I believe I was not clear: I am looking for a side-by-side diff for files in the 'normal' repository and their check-out counterparts, I am no interested in the wiki here. (I just mentioned the wiki as an example where Fossil presents information from files that are not yet checked in so the

Re: [fossil-users] clearsign, so what

2012-03-09 Thread Thomas Stover
I'm trying to follow along here, and have a few abstract questions. If an attacker takes control over a repository, then that repository is compromised, and would need to be restored from a non-compromised back up. By compromised we mean someone deleted it, defaced it, or worse tries to hide

Re: [fossil-users] clearsign, so what

2012-03-09 Thread Leo Razoumov
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 13:02, Thomas Stover c...@thomasstover.com wrote: -Algorithmically verify that changes are signed by trusted users on push/pull operations. (this is also a question) Theoretically, it is sufficient to sign a leaf manifest so that entire part of the DAG that grows out