Re: [fossil-users] Why no EXE+DLL like SQLite?

2018-08-06 Thread Gilles
I guess that's another reason why there's no desktop UI for fossil. It's just that I prefer desktop apps to web apps generally, but I can live with CLI + UI if there's nothing else. This thread was not meant as criticism; It was just a question. On 06/08/2018 03:18, Steve Landers wrote: Put

Re: [fossil-users] Why no EXE+DLL like SQLite?

2018-08-06 Thread Steve Landers
On 6 Aug 2018, 9:19 AM +0800, Steve Landers , wrote: > Put differently, what can’t you do with “fossil ui” that you can do with a > native client? > > Drag and drop is the only one I can think of and I suspect that’s a good > thing. And also push notifications. While it can be done with web

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil's (lack of) use of the Ticket system

2018-08-06 Thread Shal Farley
On 2018-08-04 4:48 AM, Gilles wrote: It might, since forum softwares (should) provide "sticky posts" that are displayed at the top. The one trick I've seen that seems most effective is to integrate the search function with the New Topic function such that the user is presented with a dynamic

Re: [fossil-users] The backoffice. Was: strange delay and messages during `fossil (uv) sync'

2018-08-06 Thread Richard Hipp
On 8/6/18, joerg van den hoff wrote: > this is a pure > CLI/ssh scenario. The ssh transport works by invoking the same HTTP processing engine as is used on a website, just on the far end of an ssh tunnel. It's all the same under the covers. That said, I do remember making some minor changes to

Re: [fossil-users] Why no EXE+DLL like SQLite?

2018-08-06 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 5, 2018, at 2:14 PM, Gilles wrote: > > 1. SQLite is a DLL + EXE package A great many programs have need for an embedded DBMS. Very few programs have need for an embedded DVCS. Note also that these are empirical observations, rather than opinions. > 2. There's no maintained GUI for

Re: [fossil-users] Why no EXE+DLL like SQLite?

2018-08-06 Thread Ron W
On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 8:07 AM wrote: > > Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 09:18:56 +0800 > From: Steve Landers > Subject: Re: [fossil-users] Why no EXE+DLL like SQLite? > > Put differently, what can’t you do with “fossil ui” that you can do with a > native client? > You can't do: fossil add fossil ci

Re: [fossil-users] The backoffice. Was: strange delay and messages during `fossil (uv) sync'

2018-08-06 Thread joerg van den hoff
On 06.08.18 22:19, Richard Hipp wrote: > Here is the technical problem I am having difficulty with. My > currently solution is (probably) what is causing the delays and errors > you are seeing. Suggestions from you are any mailing list reader on > how to solve this problem are appreciated. I've

Re: [fossil-users] Error during commit

2018-08-06 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 6, 2018, at 11:30 AM, Philip Bennefall wrote: > > a second commit right afterwards caused a segfault again In advance of drh getting time to work on this, maybe you could give two debugging steps on your end: 1. If you’re doing this on a platform that will run Valgrind, try running a

Re: [fossil-users] Why no EXE+DLL like SQLite?

2018-08-06 Thread Ron W
On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 12:57 PM wrote: > Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 11:18:09 -0500 > From: Artur Shepilko > Subject: Re: [fossil-users] Why no EXE+DLL like SQLite? > Message-ID: > > How would you want to use such a GUI? > I mean practically what is a non-programmer user workflow that > involves a

Re: [fossil-users] strange delay and messages during `fossil (uv) sync'

2018-08-06 Thread Richard Hipp
On 8/6/18, joerg van den hoff wrote: > I see substantial delay (order of many seconds to minute(s)) when > executing > > seen with 2.6 [74c908e709] 2018-08-03 21:06:57 UTC > Please try https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/info/71260ba25e79f4aa and let me know whether or not that resolves the issue.

Re: [fossil-users] Why no EXE+DLL like SQLite?

2018-08-06 Thread Gilles
On 07/08/2018 03:21, Ron W wrote: I never tried Sharp Fossil, but Fuel was a very clunky GUI. I think non-programmers would be unwilling to put up with it. As a simpler alternative, the "GUI" could just be implemented as an extension to Windows Explorer, where users would just right-click a

[fossil-users] strange delay and messages during `fossil (uv) sync'

2018-08-06 Thread joerg van den hoff
I see substantial delay (order of many seconds to minute(s)) when executing `fossil sync' or `fossil uv sync' between a clone and a "remote" repository residing on the same file system and communicating via ssh. the command finally succeeds and completes (but it really takes time...)

Re: [fossil-users] Error during commit

2018-08-06 Thread Richard Hipp
On 8/6/18, Philip Bennefall wrote: > But I wanted to report our experience in case it is of use to the > developers, and in case doing so could give us some assistance with the > immediate issue. Thank you for the report. This is definitely something that should be fixed. But I have a large

[fossil-users] Error during commit

2018-08-06 Thread Philip Bennefall
We have a repository in our organization which stores a number of rather large binary files. When attempting to commit, we sometimes get something like this: ERROR: [largefile.bin is 999378424 bytes on disk but 210746789 in the repository The file in question was not modified during the

Re: [fossil-users] Why no EXE+DLL like SQLite?

2018-08-06 Thread Artur Shepilko
How would you want to use such a GUI? I mean practically what is a non-programmer user workflow that involves a VCS interaction via GUI? The reason I ask, is that on several occasions I tried to convince "ordinary" users to incorporate a VCS into their daily tasks. Not just Fossil VCS, but Git

Re: [fossil-users] Error during commit

2018-08-06 Thread Richard Hipp
On 8/6/18, Philip Bennefall wrote: > We have a repository in our organization which stores a number of rather > large binary files. When attempting to commit, we sometimes get > something like this: > > > ERROR: [largefile.bin is 999378424 bytes on disk but 210746789 in the > repository My guess

Re: [fossil-users] Error during commit

2018-08-06 Thread Richard Hipp
On 8/6/18, Philip Bennefall wrote: > Do you have any recommendations for something we could try in order to > get more information, or would you suggest that we switch to another > DVCS if we need to store files of these sizes? Regardless of the problem, I don't think *any* DVCS is appropriate

Re: [fossil-users] Error during commit

2018-08-06 Thread Philip Bennefall
OK. I'll investigate. Thanks for the quick response. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall On 8/6/2018 6:50 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: On 8/6/18, Philip Bennefall wrote: Do you have any recommendations for something we could try in order to get more information, or would you suggest that we switch

Re: [fossil-users] Error during commit

2018-08-06 Thread Philip Bennefall
Do you have any recommendations for something we could try in order to get more information, or would you suggest that we switch to another DVCS if we need to store files of these sizes? Kind regards, Philip Bennefall On 8/6/2018 6:33 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: On 8/6/18, Philip Bennefall

Re: [fossil-users] Error during commit

2018-08-06 Thread Richard Hipp
On 8/6/18, Richard Hipp wrote: > On 8/6/18, Philip Bennefall wrote: >> Do you have any recommendations for something we could try in order to >> get more information, or would you suggest that we switch to another >> DVCS if we need to store files of these sizes? > > Regardless of the problem, I

Re: [fossil-users] Error during commit

2018-08-06 Thread Philip Bennefall
Additional information: The repo checksum is disabled locally. When enabling it, we get: Segmentation fault: 11 Kind regards, Philip Bennefall On 8/6/2018 6:11 PM, Philip Bennefall wrote: We have a repository in our organization which stores a number of rather large binary files. When

Re: [fossil-users] Error during commit

2018-08-06 Thread Philip Bennefall
The following command solved the issue at least for the moment: fossil rebuild --vacuum --analyze --compress I'm not yet sure which of the options made the difference, but I wanted to report back nevertheless. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall On 8/6/2018 6:57 PM, Philip Bennefall wrote: OK.