Re: [fossil-users] cloning http://www.fossil-scm.org/ fails

2010-01-24 Thread D. Richard Hipp
On Jan 24, 2010, at 2:11 AM, Michael Richter wrote: OK, maybe I'm being as thick as a whale sandwich, but when I try to update my copy of fossil from fossil-scm.org, after downloading a source tarball and compiling, I get the same login problem I had with my earlier version:

Re: [fossil-users] Interesting use for Fossil: notes

2010-01-24 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Agreed, it probably counts as the easiest issue/bug tracker to setup in the universe, despite the TCL-like embedded language. Stephen On Sunday, January 24, 2010, Ron Aaron r...@ronware.org wrote: Fossil isn't only good for source-control! I just set it up as a server on my local machine

Re: [fossil-users] Interesting use for Fossil: notes

2010-01-24 Thread altufaltu
Well, I also use fossil for file copy across my office laptop / home computer. One is with domain login, other with no domain and many times windows copy just doesn't work... may be because of firewall or some security app. But anyway, fossil works better as optimized / compressed file copy and

Re: [fossil-users] Interesting use for Fossil: notes

2010-01-24 Thread Jeremy Cowgar
Quoting Stephen De Gabrielle stephen.degabrie...@acm.org: Agreed, it probably counts as the easiest issue/bug tracker to setup in the universe, despite the TCL-like embedded language. I was thinking that it's TCL-like embedded language was what made it usable and so configurable. It's

Re: [fossil-users] Repository in a single file

2010-01-24 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
I took a look at subversion, and it seems to use a single db/filesystem FSFS? I'm guessing the same issues apply? Cheers, Stephen On Friday, January 22, 2010, Stephen De Gabrielle stephen.degabrie...@acm.org wrote: Hi someone recently mentioned to me that they were uncomfortable with their

Re: [fossil-users] Repository in a single file

2010-01-24 Thread chi
Stephen De Gabrielle wrote: I took a look at subversion, and it seems to use a single db/filesystem FSFS? I'm guessing the same issues apply? Hmmm ... at least if using the FSFS storage, a repository consists of a lot of files. They can be backed up very comfortably as they are immutable

Re: [fossil-users] fossil-users Digest, Vol 24, Issue 36

2010-01-24 Thread Adam Schmideg
Hi, I like the simplicity and compactness of fossil and it seems a perfect fit for a project. I just set up a fossil remote repo. I gave no rights at all to Anon and Nobody. I added user Friend and added rights to clone, check-out, check-in, etc. If I run fossil clone

Re: [fossil-users] Repository in a single file

2010-01-24 Thread Paul Serice
On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 15:35 -0500, D. Richard Hipp wrote: Could this be a case of we've never done it that way before? I think it's more a case of been there, done that, never want to do it again. Just search for Berkeley DB usage leading to respository corruption and data loss on the Wikipedia