On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Jared Harder <jared.har...@gmail.com>wrote:
> @Matt: I followed the directions and eventually started up a second server.
> I needed to use fossil server instead because I couldn't access the fossil
> ui interface from external machines. The README file I edited showed up in
> the new branch with the changes applied.
>
> So perhaps it works because of the changes I made as per Richard's
> instructions? If that's the case, I should be able to create new branches
> in my existing repository? Also, how can I have other users select the
> appropriate branch to check in to? Is there a bit of a walkthrough
> explaining how to use branches from within Fossil?
>
If the _FOSSIL_ with repository set to '/home/drh/sqlite/fossil.fossil' was
up-directory from where you executed the steps then yes, without deleting
that file I think you would have seen the same error again. For example in
the example tree drawn below the _FOSSIL_ file in "dir1" will cause you
problems if you attempted to open your repo in dir4. This is generally true
- do not open a fossil inside another fossil controlled area unless you know
exactly what you are doing.
-- dir1
|-- dir2
| `-- dir4
| `-- _FOSSIL_
|-- dir3
| `-- dir4
`-- _FOSSIL
Now all your users need to do it clone and open your new repo and then do:
fossil co <yourbranch>
Where <yourbranch> is the name of the branch to be worked on.
I couldn't find any simple, step by step, branching and merging tutorial for
fossil but the following will get you there with a little reading:
Read Jim Schimpf's excellent book on fossil, the free pdf is here:
http://www.fossil-scm.org/schimpf-book/doc/tip/fossilbook.pdf
More detail about branching/forking is available on the fossil wiki:
http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/branching.wiki
Matt
-=-
> @Richard: Alright, I've deleted that _FOSSIL_ file. Should I bother
> getting the newest source and rebuilding, or should I be safe to carry on?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jared
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 18:48, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Jared Harder <jared.har...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> No matter what command I try, the error message is always the same:
>>>> ./fossil: repository does not exist or is in an unreadable directory:
>>>> /home/drh/sqlite/fossil.fossil
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Very curious. The /home/drh/sqlite/fossil.fossil pathname is the location
>>> of the Fossil repository for Fossil on a machine that I was using as my
>>> desktop up until about 2 months ago. So I thought perhaps I had used that
>>> name in an example script somewhere. But grep is not finding it. And that
>>> pathname is not found anywhere (that I can find) in the canonical Fossil
>>> repository on http://www.fossil-scm.org/. I'm very eager to learn how
>>> Jared got a checkout that thinks its repository is located at
>>> /home/drh/sqlite/fossil.fossil.
>>>
>>
>> Joe Mistachkin solved this mystery. The source tarballs from the download
>> page were built incorrectly - they included the _FOSSIL_ file from my
>> development folder. And that _FOSSIL_ file points to the repository on
>> /home/drh/sqlite/fossil.fossil. Apparently, Jared built from the source
>> tarball.
>>
>> I've fixed the most recent tarball and deleted all the prior ones.
>> (Source tarballs can still be obtained directly from Fossil using the
>> /tarball web method, of course.)
>>
>> Jared: You need to find the _FOSSIL_ file in the source directory and
>> delete it.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Can you give us more information about where your repository came from,
>>> Jared?
>>>
>>> --
>>> D. Richard Hipp
>>> d...@sqlite.org
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> D. Richard Hipp
>> d...@sqlite.org
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