Re: [fossil-users] what determines the string length of sha1 display in the timeline?

2015-02-12 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 17:59:33 +0100, Warren Young w...@etr-usa.com wrote: On Feb 12, 2015, at 9:55 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: making the probability threshold user settable instead seems less convenient since it is just a statistical measure and it is

Re: [fossil-users] what determines the string length of sha1 display in the timeline?

2015-02-12 Thread Ron W
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Warren Young w...@etr-usa.com wrote: I would still prefer that Fossil self-tune, however. While it is true that my formula doesn’t give intuitive p values, it is also true that you cannot pick sensible d values for a repository without knowing various

Re: [fossil-users] what determines the string length of sha1 display in the timeline?

2015-02-12 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 12, 2015, at 10:55 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: p = 0.1 suggests that I easily will get a collision in my interaction with fossil while all it tells is that in about 10% of repos of this size there will be somewhere a collision Fair point. I would still

Re: [fossil-users] Alternative skin for the main Fossil website

2015-02-12 Thread Étienne Deparis
Andy Bradford amb-fos...@bradfords.org writes: Thus said Richard Hipp on Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:21:32 -0500: https://www.fossil-scm.org/skin2 Please let me know if you see any problems with the look of this alternative skin. Looks nice, except it has no background color.

Re: [fossil-users] what determines the string length of sha1 display in the timeline?

2015-02-12 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 21:17:41 +0100, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Warren Young w...@etr-usa.com wrote: I would still prefer that Fossil self-tune, however. While it is true that my formula doesn’t give intuitive p values, it is also true that you cannot

[fossil-users] hyperlink to the other wiki page in markdown

2015-02-12 Thread Petr Ferdus
Hello, in fossil wiki format link to the other wiki like [OtherWikiName] works. Markdown link in the form of [OtherWikiName](OtherWikiName) doesn't. It seems that currently working markdown syntax is [OtherWikiName](wiki?name=OtherWikiName) Does it make sense to you to interpret more simple

Re: [fossil-users] what determines the string length of sha1 display in the timeline?

2015-02-12 Thread Ross Berteig
On 2/12/2015 1:30 PM, j. van den hoff wrote: it would be good if the user could just do `fossil set prefix-length 12' thus getting rid of the collisions and proceed. in short: an option to customize the length might still be useful. For small and young projects, a prefix of 10 feels

Re: [fossil-users] Alternative skin for the main Fossil website

2015-02-12 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Great work on the new skin - about time! On 12 Feb 2015, at 2:21 am, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: […] Please let me know if you see any problems with the look of this alternative skin. 1) In the ‘Timeline’ page, the sub-menu buttons (“Older”, “Search” and “Unhide”) have no border

Re: [fossil-users] Alternative skin for the main Fossil website

2015-02-12 Thread mario
Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:29:21 +0100 j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com: the box for specifying the max. number of displayed entries is seriously clipped/not adjusted to textwidth within (see attachment if this goes through...). The input size= has been changed to =4 meanwhile. Maybe your

Re: [fossil-users] Alternative skin for the main Fossil website

2015-02-12 Thread Baruch Burstein
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: You can now access the Fossil self-hosting repository using the San Francisco Modern skin at: https://www.fossil-scm.org/skin2 Please let me know if you see any problems with the look of this alternative skin. When

Re: [fossil-users] Alternative skin for the main Fossil website

2015-02-12 Thread Baruch Burstein
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Baruch Burstein bmburst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: You can now access the Fossil self-hosting repository using the San Francisco Modern skin at: https://www.fossil-scm.org/skin2 Please let

Re: [fossil-users] Alternative skin for the main Fossil website

2015-02-12 Thread Arseniy Terekhin
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Rich Neswold rich.nesw...@gmail.com wrote: IMO, though, I don't like the lines of text that close together, so I'd add a CSS directive like line-height: 125% to give a little spacing. But that's just me. Otherwise, it's a nice, contemporary look. It's not

Re: [fossil-users] what determines the string length of sha1 display in the timeline?

2015-02-12 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 11, 2015, at 7:23 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On 2/11/15, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: whatever the reason, the netbsd example (a worst case scenario, really) would suggest to chose 12 instead of 10 as the future default length to avoid collisions

Re: [fossil-users] what determines the string length of sha1 display in the timeline?

2015-02-12 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 17:21:50 +0100, Warren Young w...@etr-usa.com wrote: On Feb 11, 2015, at 7:23 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On 2/11/15, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: whatever the reason, the netbsd example (a worst case scenario, really) would suggest to

Re: [fossil-users] what determines the string length of sha1 display in the timeline?

2015-02-12 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 12, 2015, at 9:55 AM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: making the probability threshold user settable instead seems less convenient since it is just a statistical measure and it is counterintuitive in the sense that it tells you something about chance of

Re: [fossil-users] what determines the string length of sha1 display in the timeline?

2015-02-12 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 12, 2015, at 9:59 AM, Warren Young w...@etr-usa.com wrote: Any value for d 40 gives p 1.0. :) Ooops. I mean p 0. And yes, I realize that p never goes to 0, but since 40 digits puts the chance of collision into “heat death of the universe” territory, it’s close enough to 0 for my

Re: [fossil-users] what determines the string length of sha1 display in the timeline?

2015-02-12 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 12, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Warren Young w...@etr-usa.com wrote: d = log2(n^2 / 2p) / 4 In C: double n = num_artifacts; double p = acceptable_probability_of_collision; assert(p 0.002); int d = ceil(log2((n * n) / (2 * p)) / 4.0); n needs to be a double because squaring 5 and