Re: [fossil-users] Home directory must be writable.

2011-03-19 Thread Eric Junkermann
On Sat, March 19, 2011 3:01 pm, Ron Wilson wrote: > Prefixing a command > with a variable assignment causes the command shell to export that > variable for the duration of the command (Amazing how few people seem to know that :-) ) > (unless your version of cron > uses a limited version of the

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil omits the updates through "update" command.

2011-03-19 Thread Ron Wilson
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:12 PM, John Found wrote: > For me "least astonishment" means simply: If the file is changed by VCS, > then later, VCS must knows about this fact and must take it into account. > If the user changed the file by any other way (edit, copy paste, etc.) VCS > should > consid

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil omits the updates through "update" command.

2011-03-19 Thread Ron Wilson
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:12 PM, John Found wrote: > I have very little experience with any version control systems. > For me "least astonishment" means simply: If the file is changed by VCS, > then later, VCS must knows about this fact and must take it into account. > If the user changed the fil

Re: [fossil-users] Home directory must be writable.

2011-03-19 Thread Ron Wilson
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Eric wrote: > HOME is just an environment variable, so if you could find some way to set > it to some other location just before Fossil runs ... > > (a wrapper for fossil, perhaps) I had forgotten that. Depending on your version of cron, this command should work:

Re: [fossil-users] Home directory must be writable.

2011-03-19 Thread Eric
On Sat, March 19, 2011 12:29 am, Nolan Darilek wrote: > Thanks. It isn't that I couldn't figure out a convoluted solution > involving multiple users, groups and permissions. I just thought that > Fossil could gracefully degrade if it couldn't write to the home > directory, not enabling some functi