Re: [fossil-users] [8c22e1bbcd8ec048] Regression: "fossil amend" no longer works unless operating from within an open checkout

Thus said fos...@rkeene.org on Thu, 25 May 2017 23:42:22 -0500: > Why is the check-out directory considered at all ? My guess is that it was an expedient fix to prevent a segfault. I agree with you that Fossil shouldn't care about whether or not the repository is open and just choose a

Re: [fossil-users] [8c22e1bbcd8ec048] Regression: "fossil amend" no longer works unless operating from within an open checkout

I don't see why Fossil cares if there is an open checkout for editing a comment interactively -- create a temporary file in the normal way that temporary files are normally created (TMPDIR et. al.) and allow the user to edit it, then consume the new contents. Why is the check-out directory

Re: [fossil-users] [8c22e1bbcd8ec048] Regression: "fossil amend" no longer works unless operating from within an open checkout

Thus said Roy Keene on Thu, 25 May 2017 21:17:15 -0500: > Given that this worked, why was it broken ? And can the error message > be converted to something that is actually coherent ? And can it be > unbroken ? Apparently it was broken intentionally because there was a segfault that happened

Re: [fossil-users] [8c22e1bbcd8ec048] Regression: "fossil amend" no longer works unless operating from within an open checkout

Thus said Roy Keene on Thu, 25 May 2017 21:26:50 -0500: > The fossil checkin I linked to ([8c22e1bbcd8ec048]) has the change in > src/info.c that enforces this for all cases. Yeah, I think you already said that and somehow I missed it. I wonder why this was introduced... Andy -- TAI64

Re: [fossil-users] [8c22e1bbcd8ec048] Regression: "fossil amend" no longer works unless operating from within an open checkout

Thus said Roy Keene on Thu, 25 May 2017 21:17:15 -0500: > Attempts to add tags to a repository using "-R" now returns an engrish > error message: The engrish error message has been addressed, however, it does look like somewhere the behavior has changed. I gave it a valid UUID and it still

Re: [fossil-users] [8c22e1bbcd8ec048] Regression: "fossil amend" no longer works unless operating from within an open checkout

Andy, Sorry -- the actual command had the UUID in there, it got stripped out during sanitization: $ fossil amend -R ~autobuild/aurae.fossil 0fb28f59263f1a0c547c9abebeb69d2da67d3f17 --tag build-pass --tag tests-fail the "amend" command only work from within an

Re: [fossil-users] [8c22e1bbcd8ec048] Regression: "fossil amend" no longer works unless operating from within an open checkout

Thus said Roy Keene on Thu, 25 May 2017 21:17:15 -0500: > $ fossil amend -R ~autobuild/aurae.fossil --tag build-pass --tag > tests-fail > the "amend" command only work from within an open check-out What particular checkin are you trying to amend here? Seems like the error really

[fossil-users] [8c22e1bbcd8ec048] Regression: "fossil amend" no longer works unless operating from within an open checkout

All, Per the change made here: http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/info/8c22e1bbcd8ec048 Attempts to add tags to a repository using "-R" now returns an engrish error message: $ fossil amend -R ~autobuild/aurae.fossil --tag build-pass --tag tests-fail the