Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-31 Thread Mike Meyer
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Jan Danielsson jan.m.daniels...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/31/12 11:17, Nico Williams wrote: But I feel I must at least address this insinuation that I was trolling. It's obvious that you aren't trolling. You don't have to defend yourself against such nonsense.

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-30 Thread Mike Meyer
Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com wrote: Go back through those 30 posts you mentioned. Go back to the very first one from me. I tried to be concise and wrote just three paragraphs that, IMO, captured what was needed. I certainly did not say I want git rebase in fossil and then watched the

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-29 Thread Mike Meyer
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Konstantin Khomoutov flatw...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: In the first message of these, Mike Meyer, first ruled out the whole tool (Git) due to hating its optional feature If you're going quote someone out of context, at least get their reasons right. You

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-29 Thread Mike Meyer
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Konstantin Khomoutov flatw...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I suggest you to calm down. I see my plead to not being zealous was in vain, so just please calm down at least. I am calm. Yes, I'm a little bit bothered about being insulted in various ways, but I'm

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-29 Thread Mike Meyer
Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com wrote: tl;dr: we agree that public history should not get rewritten. You missed the point of when, where, and why I need rebase. Which is why I asked for clarification about that point. See below. On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Mike Meyer m...@mired.org

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-29 Thread Mike Meyer
Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Mike Meyer m...@mired.org wrote: You missed the point. Nothing should *ever* be rebased. It's a rewrite of history, which is a fundamentally bad thing. While a SCM should make generating patch files easy, it shouldn't

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-29 Thread Mike Meyer
Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com wrote: What I'm proposing is that in fossil the rebase operation create a new branch named after the currently checked out branch (or named by the So, for the third time, can you describe your proposed new feature *without* saying the words git or rebase. No:

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-29 Thread Mike Meyer
Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Mike Meyer m...@mired.org wrote: So, for the third time, can you describe your proposed new feature *without* saying the words git or rebase. No: it's too much work, and many people understand git rebase, and -1. So

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-29 Thread Mike Meyer
Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Michael Richter ttmrich...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 December 2012 12:56, Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com wrote: What is it about rebase that causes so many to miss the idea of a rebase that is NOT destructive

Re: [fossil-users] Restrict access on per-directory or per-branch level?

2012-12-28 Thread Mike Meyer
Stefan Bellon sbel...@sbellon.de wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec, Richard Hipp wrote: When somebody clones the repository,and has a local copy of the repository, then they can do anything they want with that local copy since it is a file they own. Permissions only come into plan when dealing with a

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-28 Thread Mike Meyer
Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com wrote: Rebase is one of teh killer features of git. It certainly kills any interest I have in using git on a regular basis. How many times have you submitted a patch to an upstream and then been told to make a bunch of changes, re-organize your commits, make

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-24 Thread Mike Meyer
Michael Richter ttmrich...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 December 2012 07:33, Mike Meyer m...@mired.org wrote: for u in $DEVS ADMINS $READERS do # create user name from company mail address, password is PWname. fs new $u $u...@company.com PW$u -R $REPO done for dev in $DEVS do # Set up

Re: [fossil-users] PLOS (II)

2012-12-20 Thread Mike Meyer
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:56 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: I would find it far more intuitive if _after_ a `clone' of the above sort (password query for `myname' and all) the corresponding local user would be created automagically and also be set to the default user so

Re: [fossil-users] PLOS (II)

2012-12-20 Thread Mike Meyer
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 2:11 PM, j. v. d. hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:37:35 +0100, Mike Meyer m...@mired.org wrote: I'm just proposing to automate what you do manually in the considered situation (including chosing a different local password, why not?): create

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-19 Thread Mike Meyer
. Except for private branches. There's been some discussion about adding more control over push/pull to fossil, but I don't believe it's happened yet. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-18 Thread Mike Meyer
. On the other hand, I do an empty commit in git because I forgot to set up the staging area far more often than I use the hg rollback command. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2012-12-18 Thread Mike Meyer
) for a group would be a nice enhancement. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

Re: [fossil-users] why does `fossil rm' not do the real thing?

2012-12-16 Thread Mike Meyer
. If they change to touch the filesystem - well, make sure they always queue changes to the repo for the next commit, even if they fail to change the file system for some reason. And a flag that says repo only, ignore the file system would probably be appreciated by some. mike -- Mike Meyer m

Re: [fossil-users] why does `fossil rm' not do the real thing?

2012-12-13 Thread Mike Meyer
On 12/12/12, Themba Fletcher themba.fletc...@gmail.com wrote: to alias 'fossil rm' to 'fossil rm -f'. That is a disaster waiting to happen. If the user in question forgets that they've done that, and then runs a series of commands from someone who *didn't* do that (either cut-n-paste from an

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread Mike Meyer
Stefan Bellon sbel...@sbellon.de wrote: I'd rather vote for a list all matching revisions in the --all case and the default behaviour to stop at the most recent match. I think there are three cases, the third being the earliest matching revision. Especially if the current revision is a match.

Re: [fossil-users] suggestion

2012-11-20 Thread Mike Meyer
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:12 PM, j. v. d. hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com mostly I would like to get information here whether there are changes (edits, adds, removals...) or not and what files are not tracked. `hg stat' does

Re: [fossil-users] fossil backend for zsh vcs_info...

2012-10-16 Thread Mike Meyer
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:14:42 +0200 Gour g...@atmarama.net wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 06:25:32 -0500 Mike Meyer m...@mired.org wrote: Any other zsh users out there? If so I couldn't find a fossil backend for the vcs_info facilities in zsh (an API to extract info from various vcs's

Re: [fossil-users] status of TODO list (was Re: comparison with Git)

2012-10-13 Thread Mike Meyer
that for most forms of uncommit in any case. Your proposed workaround has similar issues. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

Re: [fossil-users] comparison with Git

2012-10-10 Thread Mike Meyer
Remigiusz Modrzejewski l...@maxnet.org.pl wrote: Actually... No. Fossil, with it's monolithic single-app design, is relatively hard to both extend and embed. Actually there are two kinds of people in the world, those who expect something to do whatever they think it should, and those who

Re: [fossil-users] comparison with Git

2012-10-10 Thread Mike Meyer
Remigiusz Modrzejewski l...@maxnet.org.pl wrote: On Oct 10, 2012, at 14:28 , Mike Meyer wrote: Well, the lack of an in-binary API certainly isn't the reason there's not an Eclipse plugin. The Eclipse license is incompatible with the GPL, so any scm that's GPL'ed (*cough* git *cough*) isn't

Re: [fossil-users] Linux binary compatibility

2012-09-27 Thread Mike Meyer
from source. Unfortunately true if you're using a Unix that uses glibc. Which leaves only the Mac with enough users to make a binary distribution worthwhile. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email

Re: [fossil-users] comparison with Git

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Michal Suchanek hramr...@gmail.com wrote: The thing to which promoters of immutable history are blind is that while exact history record of development of particular feature might be interesting and educational it is not the primary purpose if VCS. That depends

Re: [fossil-users] comparison with Git

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Meyer
Wes Freeman freeman@gmail.com wrote: The fact of the matter, though, is you can choose whether you want to use that feature of git or not; you're certainly not forced to use it. Well, you can choose whether or not to use it locally. But once you share the repo, anyone you pull from can use

Re: [fossil-users] comparison with Git

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Meyer
Michal Suchanek hramr...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 September 2012 18:49, Mike Meyer m...@mired.org wrote: Wes Freeman freeman@gmail.com wrote: The fact of the matter, though, is you can choose whether you want to use that feature of git or not; you're certainly not forced to use it. Well

Re: [fossil-users] Turning off change tracking for certain files

2012-07-02 Thread Mike Meyer
(running) the project, but that seems like overkill. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

Re: [fossil-users] build fossil with ssl support on debian and ubuntu

2012-07-02 Thread Mike Meyer
. That way, you'll get any that are missing besides openssl. Of course, if it's not in your repository, or they built it without openssl, you'll be out of luck. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more

Re: [fossil-users] Propose changes

2012-06-12 Thread Mike Meyer
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:32:14 +0300 Baruch Burstein bmburst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:36 AM, Mike Meyer m...@mired.org wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:38 +0200 Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Baruch Burstein bmburst

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Windows

2012-06-12 Thread Mike Meyer
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Re: [fossil-users] Propose changes

2012-06-11 Thread Mike Meyer
as i agree with the sentiment, isn't saying fixed likely to alienate users of that other OS? So is there a setting for this variable that breaks text files when you check them out? mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM

[fossil-users] Fossil vs. Windows

2012-06-11 Thread Mike Meyer
then the ignorant application bombs out. So, anyone got advice on this? Maybe a GUI that works with the fossil Windows binary from fossil.org? Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more

Re: [fossil-users] Security of Fossil

2012-05-30 Thread Mike Meyer
Thomas Stover c...@thomasstover.com wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2012 13:44:52 +1000 Chen, Zon wrote: So ideally we want to be able to limit Fossil's Administrator account to only work from the local PC (or better yet, from LAN only.) ok that makes sense. I do know that you can unlock the admin account

[fossil-users] Allowing REMOTE_USER auth from the command line?

2012-05-29 Thread Mike Meyer
I found a number of people asking about this, but none of them seemed to have gotten an answer... Is there some way to set the use REMOTE_USER for authentication setting from the command line (or more accurately, a script)? I could just create a configured empty repository and copy that, but that

Re: [fossil-users] HOWTO delete a Wiki page?

2012-05-07 Thread Mike Meyer
of wiki pages. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org ___ fossil-users mailing list

Re: [fossil-users] managing documentation in Fossil?

2012-04-20 Thread Mike Meyer
documentation. Things like architectural diagrams wind up there, and get links in the wiki. If the client has a google id, I'll give them write access to such, so there's a pull to keep everything there. I'm still working that division out. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http

Re: [fossil-users] managing documentation in Fossil?

2012-04-20 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:26:26 -0700 Andreas Kupries andre...@activestate.com wrote: On 4/20/2012 7:34 AM, Mike Meyer wrote: ... Things like architectural diagrams wind up there, and ... I like to program my diagrams, instead of drawing them. Easier to change, and the code (aka text

Re: [fossil-users] managing documentation in Fossil?

2012-04-20 Thread Mike Meyer
[Drifting off topic here...] On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:25:59 -0400 Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:26:26 -0700 Andreas Kupriesandre...@activestate.com wrote: On 4/20/2012 7:34 AM, Mike Meyer wrote: ... Things like architectural

Re: [fossil-users] Behavior of rm, mv, and changes/extra

2012-03-05 Thread Mike Meyer
-default builds aren't necessarily tested. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

Re: [fossil-users] documentation clarification

2012-02-03 Thread Mike Meyer
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Leo Razoumov slonik...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 07:08, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: The clock according to the D card of the artifact. In other words, you can keep changing the value of a tag and the latest version always wins. If two

Re: [fossil-users] fossil rm followed by unix rm followed by update and files come back, is this desirable?

2012-02-03 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Dmitry Chestnykh dmi...@codingrobots.com wrote: On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 09:18:32 -0700 Matt Welland wrote: If I do: fossil rm some/file.txt rm some/file.txt fossil commit People often

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil completion for Zsh

2012-01-27 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:48:09 + Baptiste Daroussin baptiste.darous...@gmail.com wrote: Nice one usually the zsh project prefers to have it incorporate upstream so do not hesitate to send your contribution to the zsh-workers mailing list also and because you are working on zsh+fossil did you

Re: [fossil-users] What you think about this functionality?

2012-01-26 Thread Mike Meyer
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:54:19 +0100 Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.name wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 02:51:04PM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Remigiusz Modrzejewski http://nuclearsquid.com/writings/git-add/ Any opinions? I'm of the

Re: [fossil-users] Behavior of rm, mv, and changes/extra

2011-12-22 Thread Mike Meyer
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:06:47 -0500 Tomek Kott tkott.s...@gmail.com wrote: -1 renaming rm to untrack or something similar that conveys correct message -- personally I think of fossil rm as acting on the repository. So I am, in fact, removing the file from the repository. Except you're not

Re: [fossil-users] fossil not tracking directories / dir artifacts after switching branches

2011-12-22 Thread Mike Meyer
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:15:35 -0500 Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: The rmdir(2) system call on Posix is a no-op if the directory is not empty. So I was thinking that we could just invoke rmdir() (or _rmdir() on windows) on the directory of a file every time a file is deleted, and let the

Re: [fossil-users] Behavior of rm, mv, and changes/extra

2011-12-21 Thread Mike Meyer
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:21:18 +0100 Ramon Ribó ram...@compassis.com wrote: It is not the job of the SCM system to keep in step with my working directory Why not? In that case, fossil update shouldn't delete files that have been removed from repository, but it does. Any chance of getting

Re: [fossil-users] Behavior of rm, mv, and changes/extra

2011-12-21 Thread Mike Meyer
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:44:50 - Eric e...@deptj.eu wrote: On Wed, December 21, 2011 7:31 pm, Mike Meyer wrote: On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:21:18 +0100 Ramon Ribó ram...@compassis.com wrote: Another issue is that an SCM system is _not_ a backup tool, but many people seem to think

Re: [fossil-users] How can I sync with a directory on each commit?

2011-10-26 Thread Mike Meyer
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Kevin Ar18 kevina...@hotmail.com wrote: Perhaps I should explain more about it?  At this stage, I am mostly using the VCS to backup and keep track of a single directory structure.  (Of course I may use it for other purposes.)  Point is, it would be really

Re: [fossil-users] Veracity

2011-10-20 Thread Mike Meyer
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Martin Gagnon eme...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-10-20, at 01:13, Jeff Slutter j...@slutter.com wrote: A couple weeks ago I posted about the possibility of a new configuration setting called something like allow-binmerge (default off). If it is enabled, and

Re: [fossil-users] More thoughts on locks

2011-10-20 Thread Mike Meyer
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Chris Peachment ch...@ononbb.com wrote: I'm a novice Fossil user working in a small group with need to track both text and binary files. It seems to me that locks are nice to have for text files since 3 way diffs can be merged at relatively little cost. But

Re: [fossil-users] More thoughts on locks

2011-10-20 Thread Mike Meyer
2011/10/20 Lluís Batlle i Rossell virik...@gmail.com On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:07:23AM -0700, Mike Meyer wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Chris Peachment ch...@ononbb.com wrote: How about an having a way to flag files - when created - as read-only or some such. (I think someone

[fossil-users] Locks (Was: Veracity)

2011-10-19 Thread Mike Meyer
This requires a lot of work on fossils part in order to be reliable. Unlike source changes, you can't do a commit and then require a merge before pushing if there's a collision. There are also nasty restrictions on how you do things. In particular, you have to have autosync on (or ignore it if

Re: [fossil-users] Locks (Was: Veracity)

2011-10-19 Thread Mike Meyer
2011/10/19 Lluís Batlle i Rossell virik...@gmail.com On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 09:38:44AM -0700, Mike Meyer wrote: This requires a lot of work on fossils part in order to be reliable. If I had to implement that on fossil, I'd use some kind of table like the shun table, propagated on autosync

Re: [fossil-users] Veracity (was: Fwd: suggestion on fossil)

2011-10-19 Thread Mike Meyer
. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users

Re: [fossil-users] ui side-by-side diffs

2011-10-10 Thread Mike Meyer
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov flatw...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: All those flashy JS bells and whistles consistently make me think they're really there for the sake of being there. But

Re: [fossil-users] ui side-by-side diffs

2011-10-10 Thread Mike Meyer
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: Personally, I find the colorize the code on the client hacks incredibly wasteful. You could colorize it once when you generate it, but instead you colorize it every time someone wants to read it? Talk about a silly

Re: [fossil-users] git vs fossil again (was: why you should not shun)

2011-10-05 Thread Mike Meyer
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Konstantin Khomoutov flatw...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: That sort of we don't need it, we don't need it mantra is a typical case of the famous Blub paradox. I mean, if we have two DVCS tools one of which makes you able to rewrite history and another one

Re: [fossil-users] git vs fossil again (was: why you should not shun)

2011-10-05 Thread Mike Meyer
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Michal Suchanek hramr...@centrum.czwrote: On 5 October 2011 20:12, Mike Meyer m...@mired.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Konstantin Khomoutov flatw...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: That sort of we don't need it, we don't need it mantra

Re: [fossil-users] Wiki formatting with empty lines

2011-08-18 Thread Mike Meyer
Jos Groot Lipman donts...@home.nl wrote: I also found out about this http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/wiki_rules The verbatim tag works like pre with the addition that it also disables all wiki and HTML markup through the matching /verbatim. But why this special tag? Is this not something

Re: [fossil-users] Wiki formatting with empty lines

2011-08-18 Thread Mike Meyer
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Jos Groot Lipman donts...@home.nl wrote: The verbatim tag works like pre with the addition that it also disables all wiki and HTML markup through the matching /verbatim. But why this special tag? Is this not something the pre should do under all

Re: [fossil-users] New features for merging

2011-08-15 Thread Mike Meyer
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Konstantin Khomoutov flatw...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:16:50 -0700 Mike Meyer m...@mired.org wrote: [...] If you insist on them being files, then there's not much point in further discussion. And having them in files means you

Re: [fossil-users] New features for merging

2011-08-14 Thread Mike Meyer
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:48:09 +0100 Ben Summers b...@fluffy.co.uk wrote: On 12 Aug 2011, at 22:39, Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Ben Summers b...@fluffy.co.uk wrote: On 12 Aug 2011, at 20:44, Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym ala

Re: [fossil-users] New features for merging

2011-08-12 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym ala...@snell-pym.org.ukwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/12/2011 07:10 PM, Joshua Paine wrote: On 8/12/2011 1:50 PM, altufaltu wrote: 1. Versioned settings: I'd prefer having all settings in a single text file

Re: [fossil-users] New features for merging

2011-08-12 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Ben Summers b...@fluffy.co.uk wrote: On 12 Aug 2011, at 20:44, Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym ala...@snell-pym.org.uk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/12/2011 07:10 PM, Joshua Paine

Re: [fossil-users] New features for merging

2011-08-12 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Mike Meyer m...@mired.org wrote: space. But we already have __FOSSIL__, so (in the words of Arlo Guthrie) one big pile is better than two little piles. For the benefit of those born

Re: [fossil-users] _FOSSIL_ vs. .fos Was: New features for merging

2011-08-12 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Remigiusz Modrzejewski l...@maxnet.org.pl wrote: On Aug 12, 2011, at 22:28 , Ben Summers wrote: If it has to be in the file system, I'd prefer one file to many. At the very least,

Re: [fossil-users] Creating repositories remotely

2011-08-11 Thread Mike Meyer
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: There is no built-in way to create a remote repository (a fossil server represents the _one_ repository which must already exist before the server can start). You have to create the .fsl file, run fossil ui once to set

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil destroys repositories?

2011-07-26 Thread Mike Meyer
managed to destroy it while trying to recover from the checkout of nothing. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

Re: [fossil-users] Converting from mercurial

2011-07-18 Thread Mike Meyer
) don't support it. To make up for that, I plan to make adding fossil support to cabal as one of my next projects. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil not removing files when switching branches

2011-07-13 Thread Mike Meyer
just by merging. If I were using a hg or git, I'd have to push/pull the changes between the repos in each working copy before I could merge them. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-15 Thread Mike Meyer
well because most systems have bash installed (if only because GNU/Linux developers tend to write bash-specific shell scripts, so a lot of software has a run-time dependency on it) where the config script will find it, and the autotools tests generally work around the bugs in it. mike -- Mike

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-14 Thread Mike Meyer
for them, but having a binary build available from the authors should meet the goal of being trivial to install. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-14 Thread Mike Meyer
on, they should be the right order of magnitude. -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

[fossil-users] Fossil merge question?

2011-04-17 Thread Mike Meyer
-- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org fstest.sh Description: application/shellscript

Re: [fossil-users] CRLF conversion on windows

2011-04-07 Thread Mike Meyer
of one or more libraries that fossil needs. mike *) UNIX(tm) is a trademark of The Open Group, and can legally only be used to describe systems which The Open Group has certified as meeting the Single UNIX Specification. -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org

Re: [fossil-users] File dates

2011-03-28 Thread Mike Meyer
. As such, this feature is dangerous. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

Re: [fossil-users] git equivalent commands

2011-03-11 Thread Mike Meyer
the command in question, and the section on advanced commands doesn't include fossil. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail

Re: [fossil-users] git equivalent commands

2011-03-11 Thread Mike Meyer
, meaning you can commit some changes to a file without committing all of them. If that's right, I couldn't find it. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon

Re: [fossil-users] IMHO Fossil needs renaming...

2011-03-04 Thread Mike Meyer
, those changes sort of popped into my head. Since no one else mentioned anything along those lines, I figured I would. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon

Re: [fossil-users] IMHO Fossil needs renaming...

2011-03-02 Thread Mike Meyer
. You really want to trust your source code to that? And you wisely didn't mention git. My only problem with the name is that it's to common a word - searching for info on fossil keeps turning up paleontological sites. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil for Android?

2011-02-27 Thread Mike Meyer
surprising. iOS is probably easier - if you're happy using the jailbroken dev tools. Using Apple's tools may be a bit harder. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil for Android?

2011-02-27 Thread Mike Meyer
have (noticed the TCC setting, and just had to see if it would work out of the box). mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail

Re: [fossil-users] Restricting trunk checkins

2011-02-22 Thread Mike Meyer
. If you've got both repos being served via an http server (and here the server auth system should be able to help - you should be able to restrict access to each repo individually), that should be the only difference. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/consulting.html

[fossil-users] fossil backend for zsh vcs_info...

2011-02-19 Thread Mike Meyer
/repository/vcs_info/ The home page (from README.wiki) provides short installation instructions and a brief description where it differs from other vcs_info backends. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Software developer/SCM consultant

Re: [fossil-users] SSH status

2011-02-17 Thread Mike Meyer
to be able to leverage the inetd handling code (used by fossil http repo) in some way, though it may take some client side tweaking. Or is the fact that it only handles one http request going to keep it from handling a complete sync, push or pull request? Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer m

Re: [fossil-users] Deploying A Web Application with Fossil and FTP

2011-02-04 Thread Mike Meyer
on updating the branches in the master repo properly, and the web sites will follow along automatically. mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html

[fossil-users] newbie failing to log into server...

2011-02-03 Thread Mike Meyer
to the repo. thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org