[fossil-users] How to avoid 'touching' the fossil repo for read-only operation?

2014-08-09 Thread Tony Papadimitriou
Hi, Every time I open a fossil repo, even if I simply open it to just get a copy of the files in some directory, I end up with a 'touched' repo file, as if some 'write' operation has occurred in the database. And a binary compare of before and after shows that some bytes actually change.

Re: [fossil-users] How to avoid 'touching' the fossil repo for read-only operation?

2014-08-09 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Tony Papadimitriou on Sat, 09 Aug 2014 20:01:30 +0300: Every time I open a fossil repo, even if I simply open it to just get a copy of the files in some directory, I end up with a 'touched' repo file, as if some 'write' operation has occurred in the database. Every time fossil

Re: [fossil-users] How to avoid 'touching' the fossil repo for read-only operation?

2014-08-09 Thread Tony Papadimitriou
Subject: Re: [fossil-users] How to avoid 'touching' the fossil repo for read-only operation? Thus said Tony Papadimitriou on Sat, 09 Aug 2014 20:01:30 +0300: Every time I open a fossil repo, even if I simply open it to just get a copy of the files in some directory, I end up with a 'touched

Re: [fossil-users] How to avoid 'touching' the fossil repo for read-only operation?

2014-08-09 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Tony Papadimitriou to...@acm.org wrote: * this seems kind of pointless, given I can open the same repo in multiple locations at the same time. Are you sure you're not referring to the separate _FOSSIL_ database, instead, or some special operation that changes

Re: [fossil-users] How to avoid 'touching' the fossil repo for read-only operation?

2014-08-09 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Tony Papadimitriou on Sat, 09 Aug 2014 20:58:41 +0300: * it doesn't seem to be the actual reason as I ran your query on my various fossils, and many of them return zero rows or very few rows compared to the number of opens it went through so far. If you close the

Re: [fossil-users] How to avoid 'touching' the fossil repo for read-only operation?

2014-08-09 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Andy Bradford amb-fos...@bradfords.org wrote: It looks like fossil ls does not honor the -R option---perhaps it should? Mine does ;) [stephan@host:~/cvs/fossil/libfossil/s2]$ f-ls -R ../../cwal.fsl | head File list from manifest version 'trunk'