Tnx for sending your repository and check-out.
There are a couple of problems. Both are things Fossil ought to be
able to deal with - things I will fix presently. Both are easy to
work around.
First, when I run:
fossil status | grep MISSING
I see that there are a bunch of files that are missing from the
repository. These files need to be either reverted or "fossil rm"-
ed. I used this command:
fossil status | grep MISSING | while read m name; do fossil
revert $name; done
(Third thing that needs to be fixed - there ought to be an easier way
to revert many files. Or, maybe if files are missing they out to be
automatically "rm"-ed. Or maybe that there is an option to
automatically "rm" missing files. Thoughts? What do other DVCSes do?)
The other problem is that you changes what used to be a file,
webmachine/demo/webmachine, into a directory. Fossil was still trying
to "read" it as a file, which was causing problem. I fixed this by
running:
fossil rm webmachine/demo/webmachine
After making those two changes, the "commit" completed normally.
Let me just take a moment here to point out that the error message
that Michael has been getting is a result of one of the many "self-
checks" that Fossil runs on every check-in and check-out. In a less
careful implementation of a DVCS (one in which these massive MD5
checksum comparisons did not occur) these bugs would have been missed
and the commit would have proceeded without error. That might have
worked. Or it might have resulted in a corrupt repository. I'm not
sure which. But in this case, the extra checking found the error and
the repository database was rolled back before any harm could be
done. And so we can continue to make the bold claim that nobody has
ever lost work that was successfully checked into a Fossil repository
due to a Fossil bug. The self-checks in Fossil continue to serve us
well. More information at:
http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/tip/www/selfcheck.wiki
D. Richard Hipp
d...@hwaci.com
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