[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 Remigiusz Modrzejewski
On May 25, 2011, at 13:29 , Gilles wrote: 1. Should the repository be located at the very top of the directory tree where files will be added and commited? No. I'd keep it somewhere else. 2. Is it OK to have spaces in the path leading to the repo and the files, eg. C:\This is a

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

2011-05-25 Thread Joshua Paine
On 5/25/2011 7:29 AM, Gilles wrote: 1. Should the repository be located at the very top of the directory tree where files will be added and commited? For instance, if the files I'll be adding/committing live below C:\, should the repository be C:\myrepo, or is it OK to locate it anywhere on

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

2011-05-25 Thread Rene
On Wed, 25 May 2011 13:29:58 +0200, Gilles wrote: 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

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

2011-05-25 Thread Richard Hipp
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: 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

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

2011-05-25 Thread Stephan Beal
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: file to a repository after opening it in a DOS box, but I get the following error when I try to commit: = C:/SOMEDIR/myfile.txt contains CR/NL line endings; commit anyhow (yes/no/all)? C:\fossil.exe:

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 Stephan Beal
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: I noticed something else: If my work directory, ie. where files from the repository are checked out, is on the C partition, Fossil won't let me add

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 Joshua Paine
On 5/25/2011 9:59 AM, Gilles wrote: For instance, with the repository file at the root of C:\ (so I can add any file below that, even in sub-directories), trying to add D:\test.txt triggers the error message: C:\fossil.exe: not within an open checkout. This is correct behavior. If you took

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 Stephan Beal
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: I know it's unusual Just don't do: fossil add . and if you do try it, just remember that you were warned. -- - stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ ___

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