Re: [fossil-users] cannot checkout a read-only Fossil repository

2012-04-30 Thread Kevin Quick
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:46:49 -0700, Leo Razoumov slonik...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:08, Kevin Quick qu...@sparq.org wrote: This isn't quite as convincing an argument to me: I can see the utility of a pull/sync from a read-only repository, but a fossil open implies that

Re: [fossil-users] cannot checkout a read-only Fossil repository

2012-04-30 Thread Leo Razoumov
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 09:45, Kevin Quick qu...@sparq.org wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:46:49 -0700, Leo Razoumov slonik...@gmail.com wrote: And at least in UNIX you really do not want making your repository writable by several people. Huh?  Bob works on stuff and commits it.  After Bob

Re: [fossil-users] cannot checkout a read-only Fossil repository

2012-04-30 Thread Stephan Beal
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Leo Razoumov slonik...@gmail.com wrote: others (chmod 0644 repo.fossil). In the case of CGI the owner is whatever your http server likes (www-data on Ubuntu). Tip: many CGI environments run user CGIs as that user. If you are lucky enough to have such a service

Re: [fossil-users] cannot checkout a read-only Fossil repository

2012-04-30 Thread Leo Razoumov
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 13:43, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Leo Razoumov slonik...@gmail.com wrote: others (chmod 0644 repo.fossil). In the case of CGI the owner is whatever your http server likes (www-data on Ubuntu). Tip: many CGI environments

[fossil-users] cannot checkout a read-only Fossil repository

2012-04-29 Thread Leo Razoumov
Hi All, the recent changes to the trunk make fossil open to modify the fossil repository being opened. If this repository is read-only or mounted on a read-only file system than fossil open fails [2] and no _FOSSIL_ file is created. I would prefer the solution proposed by Matt Welland [1] to keep

Re: [fossil-users] cannot checkout a read-only Fossil repository

2012-04-29 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Leo Razoumov slonik...@gmail.com wrote: ~/.fossil is, on the other hand, a completely different story. Its purpose is precisely to help a user to organize its work with all his/her fossil repositories and their checkouts. FWIW: +1 And that file won't ever

Re: [fossil-users] cannot checkout a read-only Fossil repository

2012-04-29 Thread Kevin Quick
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 04:01:08 -0700, Leo Razoumov slonik...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, the recent changes to the trunk make fossil open to modify the fossil repository being opened. If this repository is read-only or mounted on a read-only file system than fossil open fails [2] and no _FOSSIL_

Re: [fossil-users] cannot checkout a read-only Fossil repository

2012-04-29 Thread Leo Razoumov
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:08, Kevin Quick qu...@sparq.org wrote: This isn't quite as convincing an argument to me: I can see the utility of a pull/sync from a read-only repository, but a fossil open implies that one will be doing work with the opened contents and further implies that one