Re: [fossil-users] looking for interesting new fossil skins

2014-02-13 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: >> >> Huh. Apparently you can already do "config pull css". What else other >> than the CSS file needs to be brought over to move a "look" from one repo to >> another? > > > Didn't know

Re: [fossil-users] default web config

2014-01-19 Thread Themba Fletcher
fossil config [import|export] skin -R There are lots more areas (skin, above) and actions. 'fossil help configuration' for the rest On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: > Am I missing something? I have not found a simple way to ensure how > that when I create new Fossil

Re: [fossil-users] Hide items from timeline [Was: clone --once and URL user as admin.]

2013-12-03 Thread Themba Fletcher
Jan, Thanks for your work on this -- it's a welcome addition. I found yesterday that I could trigger a strange visual glitch with the following sequence of actions (and confirmed again just now): This is fossil version 1.28 [1a453093bb] 2013-12-03 15:42:53 UTC $ fossil init test.fossil $ fossil

Re: [fossil-users] survey: your top 5 most-used fossil CLI commands?

2013-09-02 Thread Themba Fletcher
For some irrational reason I avoid addremove as well. I find myself piping fossil changes through grep and awk and then xargs-ing back to fossil rm or add whenever it comes up - and I *know* that addremove will do the same thing. I just can't bring myself to use it :) On Monday, September 2, 201

Re: [fossil-users] survey: your top 5 most-used fossil CLI commands?

2013-09-02 Thread Themba Fletcher
status stash merge 'branch ls' undo/revert I prefer status to changes because it shows me where I'm coming from (current checkout and branch). I use it by habit after every phone call, coffee break, and misc interruption, so I'd bet probably more than any other command. On Monday, September 2, 20

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil built-in CGI: it uses `SCRIPT_NAME` instead of `REQUEST_URI`?

2013-08-30 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Yannick wrote: > > as I like to hide CGI stuffs from the visitor's eyes See also Stephen's response here for another way to do this. http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/msg13040.html hth, Themba _

Re: [fossil-users] Bikeshedding opportunity: back to the topic of "libfossil"'s name

2013-08-22 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:45:08AM +0200, Stephan Beal wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > > > mirror should be set up on GitHub to boost its search engine ranking a > > > little bit (with a prominent menti

Re: [fossil-users] Bikeshedding opportunity: back to the topic of "libfossil"'s name

2013-08-21 Thread Themba Fletcher
Ooh, I love bikeshedding. What about "libfree" as a portmanteau of lib, fossil, and three? I guess that crosses the line into humor a bit. More seriously though, fossil(3) is my favorite, but it does make it sound like it's an official part of the fossil project and actually implies, at least to

Re: [fossil-users] strange `fossil diff ' behaviour

2013-08-21 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Matt Welland wrote: > Regarding stable numbered tags. How about a script or added feature that > scans the timeline and tags every node in a systematic way similar to what > people might expect from Subversion or similar tools? > > v1.1 -> v1.2 -> v1.3 > \.-

Re: [fossil-users] SSH implementation.

2013-08-13 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:12 AM, David Mason wrote: > > All I want is for my users to say: > > fossil clone ssh://remote/proj.fossil clone.fossil > > or similar (without identifying any fossil user or password in the > command - or prompted), and have ssh fire off a remote fossil based on >

Re: [fossil-users] Status of the "hidden" tag

2013-08-09 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Themba Fletcher < > themba.fletc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I don't shun things, but there are times where I'd like to clean up the >> main timeline view for public (aka

Re: [fossil-users] Status of the "hidden" tag

2013-08-09 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Themba Fletcher > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> My apologies for being noisy with this. I think it was unclear what I was >> specifically asking. >> >> I do

Re: [fossil-users] Status of the "hidden" tag

2013-08-09 Thread Themba Fletcher
not, is this still a planned feature or should I forget I read about it? And maybe should the wording on /shun be updated? Thanks in advance, Themba On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Themba Fletcher wrote: > From fossil's /shun page: > > > Do not shun artifacts merel

[fossil-users] simple Fossil For New Users intro guide

2013-08-08 Thread Themba Fletcher
> i _strongly_ recommend against keeping the repo db in the same dir as a > checkout. Very little can go wrong when they're separated and lots can go > wrong when they're not. > Wholeheartedly concur. In just over two years of daily usage I've lost data exactly once and that was due to having my r

Re: [fossil-users] best practices during a large rewrite

2013-08-08 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Themba Fletcher < themba.fletc...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> I recently got a contract to rewrite a large (web) application. The >> intent is to transition, at a measured pace, from

[fossil-users] best practices during a large rewrite

2013-08-07 Thread Themba Fletcher
Hi all, I recently got a contract to rewrite a large (web) application. The intent is to transition, at a measured pace, from a large collection of hand-written, framework-free php files to a structured setup with a nice MVC framework, etc. So far so good. I've got all the original source in a fo

[fossil-users] Status of the "hidden" tag

2013-07-25 Thread Themba Fletcher
>From fossil's /shun page: > Do not shun artifacts merely to remove them from sight - set the "hidden" tag > on > such artifacts instead. The only other reference I could find while searching this list was a note from drh (circa 2009 or so?) noting that it had not been implemented yet. Is this s

[fossil-users] bugreport: fossil mv reports success when file does not exist in repo

2013-05-20 Thread Themba Fletcher
Hi all, I just encountered the following behavior: $ fossil mv garbage garbage2 RENAME garbage garbage2 $ fossil ls | grep garbage $ fossil version This is fossil version 1.25 [0e5f0da7eb] 2013-03-06 02:18:20 UTC The file "garbage" is of course not in the repo at all, but fossil appears to be te

Re: [fossil-users] I do want "open --keep" to be possible with updates

2013-02-21 Thread Themba Fletcher
'fossil update -n' will just show you what would change if you ran fossil update. 'fossil sync' will just sync the repo and not make any changes but not make any changes to your checkout. Fwiw, I believe update with -n syncs as well. Hth, T On Thursday, February 21, 2013, K. Fossil user wrote:

Re: [fossil-users] Tip: tinkering with/prototyping fossil UI changes

2013-02-20 Thread Themba Fletcher
Yep, it's a game changer :) I just figure this one out last week: "Save As -> Webpage Complete" will save your current state (albeit in the horrible page.html with a collection of files in page_files/* format). But you can save before / after a huge mocking up session and then run diff. This usual

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil svn conversion gets confused if last svn checkin is on a branch

2013-02-20 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > > The request, of course, is for the Fossil Git importer to either have some > improvement that makes it smarter about recognizing the *true* trunk, or at > least a flag that lets you tell it the trunk's tag name if it guesses wrong. > Doe

[fossil-users] CORS requests and the JSON API?

2013-02-08 Thread Themba Fletcher
pain. Good luck :) On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Stephan Beal > wrote: > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:26 AM, Themba Fletcher > 'themba.fletc...@gmail.com');> > > wrote: > >> Whoops -- please ignore the previous stuff for now. >> >> You have

Re: [fossil-users] CORS requests and the JSON API?

2013-02-07 Thread Themba Fletcher
x=29 12. Server: Apache 13. Vary: Accept-Encoding Doubled headers have absolutely destroyed me in the past -- I'd start there ... Best, Themba On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Themba Fletcher wrote: > If I understand correctly the OPTIONS request is forced by the fact

Re: [fossil-users] CORS requests and the JSON API?

2013-02-07 Thread Themba Fletcher
If I understand correctly the OPTIONS request is forced by the fact that your POST's content-type is application/json -- Any request that's not a Simple Request gets a preflight because the W3C says so. Simple requests are defined as (emphasis mine): >- Only uses GET or POST. If POST is used

Re: [fossil-users] casE-senSitive?

2013-02-06 Thread Themba Fletcher
review. > While I would love to 'one-tool it' with fossil's diff tech, I find it > way easier to pop into winmerge and all its ignore goodies. > Maybe I'm too optimistic to expect that much power in one tool? > > Thanks for Fossil! > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:50

Re: [fossil-users] casE-senSitive?

2013-02-06 Thread Themba Fletcher
So sounds like the problem you're trying to solve is that * you have lots of *real* changes to a set of files * most of those changes are meaningless in your environment * so you're trying to separate the signal from the noise. You can use fossil set diff-command 'diff -iw' to ignore case on the d

Re: [fossil-users] casE-senSitive?

2013-02-05 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:56 PM, wrote: > Hi, > I noticed I am getting simple case sensitive differences despite > having [ ] case-sensitive unchecked in local and remote repos? > Anything else I need to do? It sounds like you're reporting that the file *contents* differ in case as opposed to the

Re: [fossil-users] Right way to try something new and save/revert?

2013-01-25 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Gilles wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:10:35 +0100, Gilles > wrote: >>Am I correct in understanding that this is the right way to proceed to >>try some new code, and either save it (whether it works or not, just >>as a track-record) or discard it? > > I have anoth

Re: [fossil-users] Writing Linux kernel-style commit messages in Fossil

2012-12-20 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Arnel Legaspi wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way to have Linux kernel-style commit logs display the way they > should be in the Fossil web UI? By "Linux kernel-style commit logs" I mean > the way Tim Pope described it below: > > http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-not

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

2012-12-18 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:28 PM, j. v. d. hoff wrote: > On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:23:09 +0100, Richard Hipp wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Mike Meyer wrote: >> >>> I don't do that (I keep all my fossil repositories in ~/repos), so >>> haven't paid close attention to the issues. The bi

Re: [fossil-users] File moves reported in commit as file deletion!

2012-12-17 Thread Themba Fletcher
directly at the primary maintainer of a piece of software does nothing but make reading the list a job rather than a pleasure for him, to the detriment of all of us in the end. Please watch the tone of your posts. Spoken without any authority, but sincerely as a fellow user of this so

Re: [fossil-users] Improvements to side-by-side diff

2012-12-14 Thread Themba Fletcher
I've been meaning to post this for a while. On every browser except firefox, at least with my installed fonts, the side-by-side diff container overflows the body resulting in the body's border being visible as a vertical gray line behind the diff content. This will fix that, if you'd like to have

Re: [fossil-users] Obvious solution to the rm/mv problem?

2012-12-14 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Jan Danielsson > wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >>It seems that some of those who are opposed to changing the behavior >> of rm/mv are reaching a consensus that the names "rm" and "mv" were >> poorly chosen, b

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

2012-12-12 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 03:07:51PM -0800, Themba Fletcher wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Richie Adler wrote: >> > If that happens, please make sure to include "git" in the new name. That's >>

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

2012-12-12 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Richie Adler wrote: > If that happens, please make sure to include "git" in the new name. That's > what all the naysayers are trying to convert Fossil into, anyway. +1 :) ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.

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

2012-12-11 Thread Themba Fletcher
Sorry to drag up an old thread, but I'm just checking back in after a lengthy absence. On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Nolan Darilek wrote: > Weighing in on this, finally: > > It's interesting to me that everyone speculates that this *might* break > things for some hypothetical person, and *migh

Re: [fossil-users] suggestion

2012-11-19 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Themba Fletcher wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:12 PM, j. v. d. hoff > wrote: >> >> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:49:22 +0100, Richard Hipp wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:30 PM, j. v. d. hoff >>> wrote: >&g

Re: [fossil-users] suggestion

2012-11-19 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:12 PM, j. v. d. hoff wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:49:22 +0100, Richard Hipp wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:30 PM, j. v. d. hoff >> wrote: >> >>> hi there, >>> >>> a modest suggestion: >>> > > -- there seems no easy way to get a list of ignored files (as per

Re: [fossil-users] colorized fossil diff in the terminal

2012-11-03 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Themba Fletcher > wrote: >> >> Attached is a simple shell wrapper around fossil diff that colorizes >> >> Criticism and feedback welcome, and I hope it's useful t

[fossil-users] colorized fossil diff in the terminal

2012-11-03 Thread Themba Fletcher
Attached is a simple shell wrapper around fossil diff that colorizes the output of unified diffs. All command line options are passed on to fossil diff (so you can do --from, --to, --branch, etc), but I wouldn't expect good results for just anything (--side-by-side will break, as will --tk of cours

Re: [fossil-users] fossil add

2012-10-29 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:53 PM, K wrote: > > Is there a way to see what has been done to a repo since the last check-in? > Some kind of an overview of any changes which have not yet been checked in. > fossil status, fossil changes will both work > > For example, I cannot remember if I've alre

Re: [fossil-users] [v123 - Windows] Timeline view does not respect CRLF's in commit comments?

2012-09-30 Thread Themba Fletcher
I've not seen or heard of a way to do what you asked for, and I went on a hunt for just that about a year ago. You can, if you wish, visit admin:timeline in the ui and check "allow block markup ..." This will let you use s and such in your commit messages, but the raw HTML will still show up in t

Re: [fossil-users] Bug in interaction between partial commit and chmod

2012-09-27 Thread Themba Fletcher
thus this offer). Thanks again, Themba On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > Please try Joe's fix at http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/info/33ffb32cb8and > let us know whether or not this clears your problem. Tnx. > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Themb

[fossil-users] Bug in interaction between partial commit and chmod

2012-09-24 Thread Themba Fletcher
Hello all, I came across this weird case a couple of days ago: 1: tif@whiskey-five:~$ fossil version 2: This is fossil version 1.23 [5253e0a791] 2012-08-23 21:18:51 UTC 3: tif@whiskey-five:~$ fossil init foo.fossil 4: project-id: 49688f237979eb312a68fe32b7cdad04ddad7cec 5: server-id: e

Re: [fossil-users] newbie questions - rollback a single file and checkin/checkout/rollback of a whole directory

2012-07-30 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 03:39:57 -0700, David Bariod wrote:I don't know if the revert command works for a full directory.It doesn't, but if you happen to be on linux (or at least have grep and xargs in your path) this should work:$ fossil ls | grep 'path/to/directory/' | xargs fossil revertI'd defini

[fossil-users] temp files safe to delete?

2012-07-25 Thread Themba Fletcher
ess than the Content-Length header suggests was planned. Is there any conceivable reason *not* to delete them and pretend this never happened? Thanks in advance, -- Themba Fletcher Description/Entity .. (tif@)descriptionentity.com 209-591-8096 ...

Re: [fossil-users] Why is there both a checkbox and text field for adding tags?

2012-07-24 Thread Themba Fletcher
ion -- the patch is against [9c28bca430] which was current trunk at the time. If there's sufficient interest I'd also be glad to bring the patch up to date. On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:16:01 -0800, Themba Fletcher wrote: The attached patch (against [9c28bca430] -- current trunk as

Re: [fossil-users] feature request: commit option to close merged leaf

2012-07-09 Thread Themba Fletcher
m " " --branch "branch name"'). So far I've failed to teach my hands to consistently reach for the mouse and close the branch promptly, so I end up going back and closing a bunch of old branches weeks later, which sort of confuses the timeline a bit. -

Re: [fossil-users] (Q) How to add the row number column to an open tickets report?

2012-04-03 Thread Themba Fletcher
There's a solution from which you can adapt (that I haven't tested but passes the smell test) in the comments here: http://old.nabble.com/sequential-row-numbers-from-query-td22746903.html Please be aware that this is just a solution that gives you pretty row numbers for visual output. The row

Re: [fossil-users] branch switching [was: import of ancient projects]

2012-03-29 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 19:40 +0200, mlfconv wrote: > Hi Ron, > > thanks for your advice, will try, right now I'm unable to figure out > how to switch to a branch or commit into a branch - it seems that if I > run: > > fossil branch new B > fossil add somefile.c > fossil commit -m"commit" --branch

Re: [fossil-users] merge strategy "ours"

2012-03-21 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 15:04 -0400, Leo Razoumov wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 09:57, Richard Hipp wrote: > > > > Why not just "fossil revert my/file.txt"? > > > > For each one of dozens of files in the manifest?? Does this do what you want? fossil merge foo fossil changes | head -n -1 | awk

Re: [fossil-users] clearsign, so what

2012-03-07 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Mar 7, 2012, at 19:10, Leo Razoumov wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 18:03, Brian Smith wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Leo Razoumov wrote: >>> >>> Looking through the fossil source code I found places where manifests >>> are clearsign-ed. But where are signatures verified? >>

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

2012-01-26 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 15:06 -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: > But I can see an --interactive option being useful for the "stash > apply" command, so that you could selectively pull parts of a stash > into your working copy. That's a fantastic idea. I have tended to do this by saying fossil stash diff

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

2011-12-21 Thread Themba Fletcher
to delete, but not necessarily obvious ones and someone, somewhere is going to learn how it works the first time by having fossil delete their file unexpectedly. Nope, I suddenly find myself a fan of the two step process as it stands. -- Themba Fletcher ___ 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] Behavior of rm, mv, and changes/extra

2011-12-21 Thread Themba Fletcher
l, but you'll have that when you're learning a system :) So if there are any changes on the roadmap with respect to how fossil interacts with the filesystem I'd like to also advocate for changes to "fossil add" and "fossil extra" to stop ignoring dotfiles.