[fossil-users] [newbie] Can't get started

2011-05-25 Thread Gilles
Hello This is the first time I'm trying Fossil and I'm using the Windows version (d8221b9863 2011-05-12). I will be the only user, and the repository will be located on the same Windows host where the repository is saved. There are a few of questions to which I found no answer in the wiki: 1.

Re: [fossil-users] [newbie] Can't get started

2011-05-25 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 25 May 2011 09:26:25 -0400, Tomek Kott tkott.s...@gmail.com wrote: You can specify whether to ignore the line endings (they're different for win vs. linux vs. osx, and windows does things oddly...I guess). Open up the ui (fossil ui in an open repository) and then go to the admin, then

Re: [fossil-users] [newbie] Can't get started

2011-05-25 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 25 May 2011 13:29:58 +0200, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: This is the first time I'm trying Fossil and I'm using the Windows version (d8221b9863 2011-05-12). I noticed something else: If my work directory, ie. where files from the repository are checked out, is on the C partition

Re: [fossil-users] [newbie] Can't get started

2011-05-25 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 25 May 2011 16:06:42 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: Fossil requires all files in a given repo to share a common parent directory. BTW: that's not just fossil. i don't know of any SCM which allows one to add arbitrary paths to an arbitrary repository. Thanks for the

Re: [fossil-users] [newbie] Can't get started

2011-05-25 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 25 May 2011 10:30:37 -0400, Joshua Paine jos...@letterblock.com wrote: This is correct behavior. Yes, makes perfect sense. And you should really think about your entire-c-drive-is-my-working-copy thing. Maybe it makes sense for your use case, but it's at least a very unusual use of

Re: [fossil-users] [newbie] Can't get started

2011-05-25 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 25 May 2011 16:37:26 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: Just don't do: fossil add . and if you do try it, just remember that you were warned. I will promptly forget what I just read ;-) ___ fossil-users mailing list

[fossil-users] Add/commit from script?

2011-05-25 Thread Gilles
Hello I'd like to write a script that the user can call that will... 1. Check if the document has already been added to the repository, and add it if not 2. Commit changes That way, the user won't have to call two commands. I was thinking of reading the output from fossil.exe ls, followed by

Re: [fossil-users] Add/commit from script?

2011-05-25 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 25 May 2011 18:09:03 -0400, Joshua Paine jos...@letterblock.com wrote: You can just add it every time. Adding a file that's already in the repo is a no-op. Good to know. Thank you. ___ fossil-users mailing list

[fossil-users] Going back to previous revision: update?

2011-05-26 Thread Gilles
Hello I read the wiki, but didn't find clear explanation about how to go back to a previous revision of a file in case something I tried didn't work as planned. The closest command that looks like it does this is update: http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/help/update If I wanted to

Re: [fossil-users] Going back to previous revision: update?

2011-05-26 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 26 May 2011 13:03:34 +0400, Konstantin Khomoutov flatw...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Read carefully what fossil help update prints. Thanks, but it's just the same information from the wiki. Anyway, after going the list of commands, I seem to have found how to have Fossil check out a

Re: [fossil-users] Going back to previous revision: update?

2011-05-26 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 26 May 2011 07:08:55 -0400, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: Way too much work. Just type: fossil update previous Thanks for the tip, but update merges the repo version with the work version, while I wanted to simply discard the work version altogether and go back to the repo

Re: [fossil-users] Going back to previous revision: update?

2011-05-26 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 26 May 2011 07:54:41 -0400, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: fossil revert Even easier. Thank you. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users

[fossil-users] [d8221b9863] Remove deleted file from repo?

2011-08-10 Thread Gilles
Hello I delete a file with Windows Explorer that was part of the repository and had been checked out. Now, when I run fossil commit, I get the following error message: = D:\fossil commit C:\fossil.exe: missing file: a8711407.txt C:\fossil.exe: aborting due to prior errors

Re: [fossil-users] [d8221b9863] Remove deleted file from repo?

2011-08-10 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:11:03 +0400, Konstantin Khomoutov flatw...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I suspect the file was located in some subdirectory and you tried to `rm` it while being in some other place of the directory structure. Right on. I could successfuly remove the two files. I'll check

Re: [fossil-users] [d8221b9863] Remove deleted file from repo?

2011-08-11 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:13:35 +0400, Konstantin Khomoutov flatw...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Apparently, you're confusing files present in a checkout and *modified* files present in a checkout. Thanks for the clarification. I'll go through the wiki + PDF for more infos.

Re: [fossil-users] delete: Retrieve versions?

2011-08-26 Thread Gilles
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:26:24 -0400, Tomek Kott tkott.s...@gmail.com wrote: Do you mean a list of all files that have ever been deleted throughout the repository? Or a list of the files deleted in the last commit? I meant the former: Checking out the latest revision of a file which has at some

Re: [fossil-users] delete: Retrieve versions?

2011-08-26 Thread Gilles
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:27:50 -0400, Tomek Kott tkott.s...@gmail.com wrote: To be honest I'm not either -- I don't use them personally. I believe it is used for auditing puproses, since it contains checksums of the files, the user, and timestamp. I can live with that. Telling Fossil to stop

Re: [fossil-users] delete: Retrieve versions?

2011-08-28 Thread Gilles
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:16:31 -0400, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Gé Weijers g...@weijers.org wrote: Recently the flag '-showfiles' was added to 'fossil timeline'. It shows which files were added, deleted or modified in each commit. The next release should

[fossil-users] [vb.net] Which files/folders can be safely ignored?

2011-10-03 Thread Gilles
Hello I'd like to start using Fossil to monitor Vb.Net (2008 Express) projects, and need to know which files/folders I can safely ignore when using the add command. FWIW, here's a one form + one module project: Directory of C:\Projects\MyApp\WindowsApplication1 03/10/2011

Re: [fossil-users] [vb.net] Which files/folders can be safely ignored?

2011-10-03 Thread Gilles
On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:55:46 +0200, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: Thanks guys for the help. Apparently, I'm not doing it right, as Fossil did add bin/, obj/, and My Project/ when running add. Incidently, what is the right way to cancel changes made but not yet commited? According

Re: [fossil-users] [vb.net] Which files/folders can be safely ignored?

2011-10-04 Thread Gilles
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:59:13 +0200, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: I'd like to start using Fossil to monitor Vb.Net (2008 Express) projects, and need to know which files/folders I can safely ignore when using the add command. What is the right way to tell Fossil to ignore folders

Re: [fossil-users] [vb.net] Which files/folders can be safely ignored?

2011-10-04 Thread Gilles
On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 11:13:16 +0200, Lluís Batlle i Rossell virik...@gmail.com wrote: There may be some troubles with spaces or the quotes, I don't know. I wondered too, but it also adds files in bin/ and obj/. Do you run that from a 'cmd' prompt, or a 'sh' prompt? From a cmd prompt in Windows.

Re: [fossil-users] [vb.net] Which files/folders can be safely ignored?

2011-10-04 Thread Gilles
On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 11:26:17 +0200, Ramon Ribó ram...@compassis.com wrote: fossil help revert Thanks, much better. So, nobody knows why fossil includes files in a folder even though I use the --ignore option? === C:\Projects\MyApp\WindowsApplication1fossil add --ignore bin/*,obj/* .

[fossil-users] Listing artifact IDs for shunning?

2011-10-04 Thread Gilles
Hello I googled for this, but didn't find how to do this. Apparently, the way to remove a file from a repository entirely is to launch the UI, and go to Admin Shunned. There, the user is prompted to type the file's artifact ID. fossil ls only displays the list, without the hash. How do I

Re: [fossil-users] [vb.net] Which files/folders can be safely ignored?

2011-10-04 Thread Gilles
On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 13:40:30 +0200, Dmitry Chestnykh dmi...@codingrobots.com wrote: Does it ignore files if you set ignore-glob by launching 'fossil ui' and then going to Admin Settings? Yes. 1. I added the following in ignore-glob: ignore-glob=*.o,*.obj,*.exe,bin/*,obj/*,My Project/* 2. Hit

Re: [fossil-users] [vb.net] Which files/folders can be safely ignored?

2011-10-04 Thread Gilles
On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 14:08:49 +0200, Dmitry Chestnykh dmi...@codingrobots.com wrote: What about */bin/*,*/obj/* ? That did it :-) Using the following in either the --ignore switch or the UI's Admin Settings ignore-blog tells Fossil to ignore the following files + directories:

Re: [fossil-users] Listing artifact IDs for shunning?

2011-10-04 Thread Gilles
On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 08:45:44 -0400, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: Don't do that. The purpose of Fossil is to remember, not to forget. I understand the reason, but I would still like to use this feature. How can I get a list of the artifact ID's for each file in the repository? Thank you.

Re: [fossil-users] Listing artifact IDs for shunning?

2011-10-04 Thread Gilles
On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:49:15 +0200, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: How can I get a list of the artifact ID's for each file in the repository? Found it. In the UI, go to the Files section, select a file, click on Shun in the menu bar, and finalize with Rebuild. Thank you

Re: [fossil-users] Why you should not shun

2011-10-04 Thread Gilles
On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 14:06:54 -0400, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: Learn from my mistake: Don't shun on a whim. The only reason to shun is to remove truly harmful content, such as spam. I should have just let the sync proceed even if it was slower than I would like. Thanks for sharing this

Re: [fossil-users] [vb.net] Which files/folders can be safely ignored?

2011-10-05 Thread Gilles
On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 15:14:56 +0200, Dmitry Chestnykh dmi...@codingrobots.com wrote: I don't know a lot about Visual Studio, but*.sln looks to me like a solution file, don't ignore it. According to the git ignore template here https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/VB.Net.gitignore,

[fossil-users] GUI client for Windows?

2011-10-05 Thread Gilles
Hello I'd like to use a fat GUI client instead of the CLI or the web UI, so checked out GUI clients for Windows. Since I can't stand Java, I didn't try jurassic-fossil. Apparently, the only alternative for Windows is Ingo Koch's WinFossil.

Re: [fossil-users] GUI client for Windows?

2011-10-06 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:05:06 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: Nope. Fossil's monolithic design doesn't lend itself well to creating GUIs. We're in the process of providing a solution, though - the JSON API allows alternate GUIs/shells to be written for fossil, but it is not yet

Re: [fossil-users] GUI client for Windows?

2011-10-06 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 15:04:48 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: The most important functionality is working already (see the doc link). i unfortunately can't give a timetable - i hack on it as the time/energy/desire allow for. If you're well-versed in C, i'd be happy to have another

Re: [fossil-users] GUI client for Windows?

2011-10-06 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:50:26 -0400, Tomek Kott tkott.s...@gmail.com wrote: what issues did you have with it? Maybe it's just that I didn't use it properly: Starting with a repo I opened with the CLI and is located at the root of the partition where I keep all the documents I work on (source

Re: [fossil-users] GUI client for Windows?

2011-10-06 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:09:45 +0200, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: If I choose C:\ instead, it seems to scan the whole drive, which takes for ever and freezes the UI. Also, it chokes when using some non-standard characters: filename contains illegal characters: ... OS Cda [or] Mp3.ico

Re: [fossil-users] GUI client for Windows?

2011-10-06 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 10:30:46 -0400, Tomek Kott tkott.s...@gmail.com wrote: So the checkout issue I'm not sure about, because that's how I started using winfossil as well. I have two thoughts. By default, WinFossil looks for '.fsl' type extensions. This might be somehow screwing things up because it

Re: [fossil-users] GUI client for Windows?

2011-10-06 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 11:01:43 -0400, Tomek Kott tkott.s...@gmail.com wrote: Yep, it should. It's worked for me for all of the repo's I've tried. So I guess WinFossil doesn't work when the repo is opened at the root of a partition that contains a lot of directories because it will go through each

Re: [fossil-users] GUI client for Windows?

2011-10-06 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 11:17:06 -0400, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: Fossil is fairly strict about the format of filenames - to try to avoid cross-platform issues and globbing issues. http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/artifact/79bed8df57b?ln=425 Thanks for the tip.

Re: [fossil-users] Dry-run commit? Gdiff?

2011-10-07 Thread Gilles
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 12:10:06 -0400, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: Use the (undocumented) --test option: fossil commit --test Thank you. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org

Re: [fossil-users] Dry-run commit? Gdiff?

2011-10-07 Thread Gilles
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:06:34 +0200, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: 2. Is there a way to run a GUI diff for Windows so I can check what changes were made between two revisions of a given file? Unless I'm mistaken, the only way to view changes between two revisions (artifacts) of a file

Re: [fossil-users] GUI client for Windows?

2011-10-08 Thread Gilles
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:54:23 +0200, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: Yes, users should be aware that Fossil refuses to handle files that contain some characters that are valid in Windows but might not be in other OS's. Actually, this is a non-issue, since Fossil won't add a file that contains

Re: [fossil-users] Annoucement: Fuel GUI Client

2011-10-08 Thread Gilles
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 19:14:48 +0900, Kostas Karanikolas karaniko...@gmail.com wrote: Since there's been some interest lately in alternative GUI tools for Fossil I'd like to take this opportunity to announce Fuel a cross-platform GUI client for Fossil. I unzipped and launched 0.9.4 on Windows, and

Re: [fossil-users] Annoucement: Fuel GUI Client

2011-10-08 Thread Gilles
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 21:10:20 +0900, Kostas Karanikolas karaniko...@gmail.com wrote: Has your machine been fully updated via WindowsUpdate? Especially any updates relating to the Microsoft Visual C Runtime library (MSVCRT.dll). Thanks guys for the help. Using either the fossil.exe that's in the ZIP

Re: [fossil-users] Annoucement: Fuel GUI Client

2011-10-08 Thread Gilles
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 09:58:13 -0400, Martin Gagnon eme...@gmail.com wrote: A gui client might access directory one at a time (kind of file manager) and only use fossil ls to figure out what file is under fossil control. I guess calling systematically fossil extra is not necessary. +1. Am I correct

Re: [fossil-users] Annoucement: Fuel GUI Client

2011-10-08 Thread Gilles
On Sun, 9 Oct 2011 01:09:46 +0900, Kostas Karanikolas karaniko...@gmail.com wrote: In fuel you control what gets scanned from the file-system via the View menu. Thanks for the tip. Pasting the path into Folder text box of the Open workpace dialog will take you to that path directly. This is true

Re: [fossil-users] Annoucement: Fuel GUI Client

2011-10-09 Thread Gilles
On Sun, 9 Oct 2011 23:40:27 +0900, Kostas Karanikolas karaniko...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately this is the standard folder selection dialog up to windows XP. From Vista onwards, a new dialog is available which allows direct pasting of paths. Keep in mind that Fuel remembers the repositories you

[fossil-users] Gdiff after commited files?

2011-10-10 Thread Gilles
Hello fossil gdiff myfile.txt works fine while myfile.txt hasn't yet been commited. Is there a simple way to tell Fossil to call the gdiff application with the last and before-last revisions of the file by default? Thank you. ___ fossil-users mailing

Re: [fossil-users] Gdiff after commited files?

2011-10-11 Thread Gilles
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:08:04 +0200, Dmitry Chestnykh dmi...@codingrobots.com wrote: On Oct 10, 2011, at 17:38 , Gilles wrote: Is there a simple way to tell Fossil to call the gdiff application with the last and before-last revisions of the file by default? fossil gdiff --from previous

Re: [fossil-users] Gdiff after commited files?

2011-10-11 Thread Gilles
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:17:27 +0200, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: I'd also like to really check out the two versions into a directory. Found it: 1. First, find the artifact ID that uniquely identifies each revision of a given file (it's the second hash; The first hash is the artifact ID

Re: [fossil-users] Gdiff after commited files?

2011-10-11 Thread Gilles
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:13:05 +0200, Lluís Batlle i Rossell virik...@gmail.com wrote: Ah great. I wanted some kind of 'svn cat' equivalent. Thank you! Glad it helped you :-) ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org

[fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?

2011-10-12 Thread Gilles
Hello I read this article about Fast Explorer 2008 which lets the user edit the items found in the popup menu that is displayed when right-clicking in Windows Explorer: www.ghacks.net/2010/08/15/add-custom-items-to-windows-explorer-context-menu/ I was wondering if someone has tried using this

Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?

2011-10-13 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:03:55 +0200, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: I read this article about Fast Explorer 2008 which lets the user edit the items found in the popup menu that is displayed when right-clicking in Windows Explorer: www.ghacks.net/2010/08/15/add-custom-items-to-windows

Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?

2011-10-14 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:19:58 +0200, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: 2. Is there a way to tell Fossil to pause after running a command, so the user has some feedback before the DOS box closes, which it does when running commands that don't prompt the user for more such as revert or undo

Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?

2011-10-19 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:33:15 +0200, Kohn Bernhard bernhard.k...@ait.ac.at wrote: thanks for sharing the idea using Fast Explorer. I find it very good! Actually, it's not that good because... - it requires installing Fast Explorer - it requires adding a fossil.bat just to call pause to keep the

Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?

2011-10-19 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:22:38 -0400, Tomek Kott tkott.s...@gmail.com wrote: For windows users, there is already an effort to get fossil extended to the explorer context menu. I think there's a need for a simple group + items that we can simply use through file managers like Windows Explorer

Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?

2011-10-20 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:39:43 +0200, Kohn Bernhard bernhard.k...@ait.ac.at wrote: I have used the fast explorer to achieve a menu entry just beneath 7zip explorer entry. You should try the Submenu Items selection on the left side of fast explorer. But I use only the type File Folder. That's why:

Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?

2011-10-20 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:56:43 +0200, Kohn Bernhard bernhard.k...@ait.ac.at wrote: it works. You just have to add a new submenu item with the same name but different File Type. To this submen you can add a item. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/830/fastexplorerfos.png Thanks much for the tip

Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?

2011-10-21 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:56:43 +0200, Kohn Bernhard bernhard.k...@ait.ac.at wrote: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/830/fastexplorerfos.png I notice that none of the commands you added to the menu use parameters. I wanted to add gdiff --from previous %1, but I can't get Fast Explorer to send

Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?

2011-10-21 Thread Gilles
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:15:14 +0200, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: I wanted to add gdiff --from previous %1, but I can't get Fast Explorer to send the full path to the file if it contains spaces :-/ Problem solved: I thought FastExplorer sent all the parameters as a single string, while

[fossil-users] Running a command in any sub-dir?

2011-10-27 Thread Gilles
Hello, I noticed that Fossil requires the user to run commands in a directory whose path matches where the file was added in the repository: 0. The repository is C:\Projects\my.repo, and there is single project in C:\Projects\Project1\ 1. In C:\Projects, I run fossil add . to add the files

Re: [fossil-users] How can I sync with a directory on each commit?

2011-10-27 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:00:01 -0400, Kevin Ar18 kevina...@hotmail.com wrote: Instead of having to manually add or remove files, I would like to be able to automatically sync all changes. Basically, the workflow might be like this: * Have a single directory with all files in version control * Have

Re: [fossil-users] Running a command in any sub-dir?

2011-10-27 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:00:36 +0200, Dmitry Chestnykh dmi...@codingrobots.com wrote: Fossil expects your current directory to be inside the root of the working copy, i.e. the working copy directory itself or any other directory under it in the hierarchy. Thanks for the infos, but the issue I was

Re: [fossil-users] Running a command in any sub-dir?

2011-10-27 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:30:38 +0200, Dmitry Chestnykh dmi...@codingrobots.com wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:21:38 +0200 Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: C:\Projects\Project2fossil diff Project1/Form1.vb C:\fossil.exe: file Project2/Project1/Form1.vb does not exist in checkin: C:\Projects

[fossil-users] How to gdiff two versions of a file?

2011-10-27 Thread Gilles
Hello After committing the changes I made to a file, I'd like to run the gdiff application to show the changes between the last revision and the before-last revision. I tried the following, but it doesn't work: C:\MyProjectsfossil finfo Project1/Form1.vb History of

Re: [fossil-users] Running a command in any sub-dir?

2011-10-27 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:13:58 +0200, Dmitry Chestnykh dmi...@codingrobots.com wrote: As for why it works this way -- this is just convenient and familiar. If Fossil worked with absolute paths instead of relative ones, it would be inconvenient to work with. Thanks for the explanation.

Re: [fossil-users] How to gdiff two versions of a file?

2011-10-31 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:15:30 -0400, Martin Gagnon eme...@gmail.com wrote: To show only diff of Project1/Form1.vb, you should specify the filename: fossil gdiff --from 7861174642 --to 6f24ad8afa Project1/Form1.vb Indeed, we must type the name of the file; Using the artifact ID's isn't enough.

Re: [fossil-users] How to gdiff two versions of a file?

2011-11-01 Thread Gilles
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:48:56 +0100, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: WinMerge works fine when diffing a file in the working directory and a revision in the repo: Does someone use WinMerge successfuly to diff two revisions, ie. after the changes have been commited to the repo? Any idea how

Re: [fossil-users] How to gdiff two versions of a file?

2011-11-02 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:23:20 +0100, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: C:\Projectsfossil gdiff --from d4980ff4a7 --to 7c50b63ab5 Project1/Form1.vb = WinMerge opens, but files aren't displayed. Is there a way to check what parameters Fossil uses to call the gdiffer? Does it create two temporary

[fossil-users] How to list commits made so far?

2011-11-06 Thread Gilles
Hello, I'd like to check something about how Fossil works. When I run fossil commit, it saves the changes made to all the files that are monitored (ie. that have been added to the repository). When I run fossil finfo on a file, it shows two hashes: C:\Projects\Project1fossil finfo Form1.vb

Re: [fossil-users] How to list commits made so far?

2011-11-07 Thread Gilles
On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 16:22:36 +0400, Konstantin Khomoutov flatw...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I think the meaning of these hashes is reversed: artifact is a particular version of a particular file according to [1], so the first hash here identifies the commit the artifact identified by the

Re: [fossil-users] How to list commits made so far?

2011-11-07 Thread Gilles
On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 18:37:23 +0400, Konstantin Khomoutov flatw...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I can guess that's the effect of timeline defaulting to showing tickets and wiki edits as well as commits. What happens if you do fossil timeline -t ci -n 20 ? Good idea, but still strange:

Re: [fossil-users] How to list commits made so far?

2011-11-07 Thread Gilles
On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 15:45:16 +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell virik...@gmail.com wrote: 'n' sets the maximum number of lines, iirc. This is not what is showing here. No matter what I count as lines, I don't get five lines when I type -n 5: C:\Projects\Project1fossil timeline -n 5 -t ci ===

Re: [fossil-users] How to list commits made so far?

2011-11-07 Thread Gilles
On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 19:18:44 +0400, Konstantin Khomoutov flatw...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: 2) In the description text, where it's clearly placed in the context of check-ins. I guess it would make more sense that -n stands for number of check-in's, but it's not returning that number. I

Re: [fossil-users] How to gdiff two versions of a file?

2011-11-08 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 12:22:27 -0400, Ron Wilson ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to check what parameters Fossil uses to call the gdiffer? Create a batch script with the line: echo %1% %2% %3% %4% %5% %6% %7% %8% %9% Thanks for the tip. I'll go ask in the forum why WinMerge doesn't

Re: [fossil-users] How to gdiff two versions of a file?

2011-11-08 Thread Gilles
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:58:21 +0100, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: C:\Projects\Project1fossil gdiff --from 367bcfa41a --to 6a07f19e02 Form1.vb /temp/kE30YW5dHfVyjJq /temp/IEUmm1z9sO9QYJJ Found it: If the repository is located in the C partition, Fossil checks out those temporary files in C

Re: [fossil-users] How to gdiff two versions of a file?

2011-11-08 Thread Gilles
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:36:25 +0100, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: Found it: If the repository is located in the C partition, Fossil checks out those temporary files in C:\temp\ but as shown above, the paths don't include the partition later so WinMerge can't locate the files. s/later

Re: [fossil-users] Quickref available for fossil

2011-11-26 Thread Gilles
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:50:01 +, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: The -y option (side-by-side diff) is a new feature since version 1.20. It seems to me like I've been using it forever, so I guess that means its about time to do a new release, huh? I downloaded the latest version (for

Re: [fossil-users] Status of GUI for Windows?

2012-04-20 Thread Gilles
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:49:26 +0200, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: Thanks for the tip. I tried 0.4.6 and was wondering what the difference is in the Repositories menu between Select Checkout and Open? Also, when I use Repositories Open, it crashes: Unhandled exception has occured in your

Re: [fossil-users] Status of GUI for Windows?

2012-04-22 Thread Gilles
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:00:50 -0400, Tomek Kott tkott.s...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure why it crashes for you... it works fine for me on Win 7 32/64. Perhaps a .NET issue. I think this was a bug that could never be reproduced on many different computers... I'm using the 32-bit release of XPSP3

[fossil-users] [1.22/newbie] Add files with specific extension?

2012-06-29 Thread Gilles
Hello I'd like to add files that have a given extension, eg. C:\fossil add C:\Projects\*.xyz Apparently, Fossil will add all the files in a given directory, unless we add the --ignore switch. Is there really no way to simply specify the extension we want to include? Thank you.

Re: [fossil-users] [1.22/newbie] Add files with specific extension?

2012-06-29 Thread Gilles
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 01:19:38 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: fossil add foo.* works just fine. Can you try without the quotes, just for kicks? Thanks, it does work on Windows too. Based on the online infos, I was under the (wrong) impression that Fossil would add all the files

Re: [fossil-users] [1.22/newbie] Add files with specific extension?

2012-06-29 Thread Gilles
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 01:48:29 +0200, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: It looks like his shell does, but there might be minor annoyances with spaces (which must be escaped with \ instead of quotes, i surmise). Right. I'll make it a habit to always quote the full path when adding files to

[fossil-users] [settings] Should I use --global?

2012-07-08 Thread Gilles
Hello This is what I use to configure Fossil to ignore some VB.Net file extensions that don't need to be put into the repo: C:\fossil settings --global ignore-glob *.exe,*.pdb,*.vb~*,*/bin/*,*/obj/* I'd like to know when to use --global to check if I really need it. Thank you.

Re: [fossil-users] [settings] Should I use --global?

2012-07-08 Thread Gilles
On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 14:05:45 +0200, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: I'd like to know when to use --global to check if I really need it. Should have thought of running help... Options: --global set or unset the given property globally instead of setting or unsetting

Re: [fossil-users] [settings] Should I use --global?

2012-07-09 Thread Gilles
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 09:16:57 +0200, Benoit Mortgat mort...@gmail.com wrote: For the ignore-glob, you have three options: * global: applies to all fossil repositories (fossil setting --global) * local: applies to the repository you are working on (fossil setting) * versionable: applies to the

[fossil-users] [1.22] Easy way to cancel tentative changes?

2012-11-16 Thread Gilles
Hello This is a newbie question. Prior to using Fossil, to try something and still be able to go back in case the change didn't work, the only way I had was to comment things out. Now that I'm used to using Fossil, I just keep a DOS box open so I can easily run fossil.exe commit -m Some comment

Re: [fossil-users] [1.22] Easy way to cancel tentative changes?

2012-11-16 Thread Gilles
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:25:34 -0500, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: There are many ways to do this. I will present one way. Others might give you other ideas, each with various advantages and disadvantages. Thanks for the idea of creating a tempory branch to play with code and either cancel

[fossil-users] Simple Fossil GUI for Windows?

2012-11-19 Thread Gilles
Hello I checked the two GUIs for Windows that I know (Fuel and WinFossil). They're nice but I stick to the CLI because it's much faster, especially since the former is cross-platform (Qt?) and the latter is a .Net application. Still, I'd rather a Windows application than having to keep a

Re: [fossil-users] TortoiseFossil - Re: Simple Fossil GUI for Windows?

2012-11-21 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 02:43:12 -0800, Edward Blake edward.bl...@rovoscape.com wrote: Since a discussion on context menu extensions is coming up, I probably should mention that I have done some work on a Tortoise tool for fossil. It displays overlays in explorer and everything.

[fossil-users] [gdiff] Recommanded GUI differ for Windows?

2012-11-21 Thread Gilles
Hello I prefer to use a GUI differ than the text-based solution. 1. Which Windows GUI differ would you recommend for use with Fossil? I know about WinDiff and BeyondCompare. 2. How to configure the diff-binary line in Settings so that Fossil and the GUI differ work well together? How do the two

Re: [fossil-users] [gdiff] Recommanded GUI differ for Windows?

2012-11-21 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:57:00 -0500, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: In newer versions of Fossil, if you do fossil gdiff on windows, it runs WinDiff by default. There is nothing to configure. So I don't need to fill the diff-command in Settings, and just adding WinDiff to Windows' PATH env't

Re: [fossil-users] [gdiff] Recommanded GUI differ for Windows?

2012-11-21 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:18:08 +0100, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: So I don't need to fill the diff-command in Settings, and just adding WinDiff to Windows' PATH env't variable should be enough. ... or rather the gdiff-command. ___ fossil-users

Re: [fossil-users] [gdiff] Recommanded GUI differ for Windows?

2012-11-21 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:37:26 +0100, Peter Spjuth peter.spj...@gmail.com wrote: I might be a bit biased since I wrote it, but I prefer http://eskil.tcl.tk Thanks for the link. What does Eskill provide that isn't provided by installing ActiveTcl and running fossil --tk?

Re: [fossil-users] [gdiff] Recommanded GUI differ for Windows?

2012-11-21 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:43:21 +0100, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: I prefer to use a GUI differ than the text-based solution. ... and it only occured to me that I misspelled recommended. Wrong language :-) ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil

Re: [fossil-users] [gdiff] Recommanded GUI differ for Windows?

2012-11-22 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 20:51:09 -0800, E. Timothy Uy t...@loqu8.com wrote: ExamDiff Pro. http://www.prestosoft.com/edp_examdiffpro.asp On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Tomek Kott tkott.li...@outlook.com wrote: fwiw I've used kdiff3 (http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/) on windows with good success.

[fossil-users] Questions about using tag

2012-11-22 Thread Gilles
Hello I checked the help section and googled for more infos, but am still a bit unclear at how to use the tag option to add tags to a given check-in: 1. Am I correct in understanding that the tag command can be either used with commit... fossil commit -m Some commit -tag some tags ...

Re: [fossil-users] Questions about using tag

2012-11-24 Thread Gilles
On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 07:14:37 -0500, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: Note that you can include multiple --tag options on a commit. When I create a new release of SQLite, for example, I'll typically add a couple of tags and a check-in specific background color, like this: fossil commit -f

[fossil-users] Fossil as DLL?

2012-11-24 Thread Gilles
Hello Unless there's a way to call fossil.exe and know how the command ended... http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/688/fossilprompt.jpg ... is there a way to recompile the Fossil source code to turn it into a DLL* to get some feedback when calling Fossil programmatically? Since

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil as DLL?

2012-11-24 Thread Gilles
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 15:31:41 -0500, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: The current Fossil implementation is not appropriate for converting into a library due to its extensive using of global variables and due to a cavalier attitude toward freeing allocated memory. Fossil is designed to run a

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread Gilles
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:21:54 -0500, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: One big problem here is that the user will doubtless expect to have full Perl regular expressions. That will mean another compile-time dependency. And maybe also a run-time dependency if a shared library is used (as most

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