[fossil-users] How to save typing when checking out branches with long names?

2012-08-27 Thread vuk
I have a fossil repository where I keep my vim settings in different branches. Here is an example output of branch listing: $ fossil branch * trunk vim-7.3.000-i486-1-custom vim-7.3.000-i486-1-default vim-7.3.154-x86_64-1-custom-big Now, to checkout the last branch in this list, I have to c

Re: [fossil-users] How to save typing when checking out branches with long names?

2012-08-27 Thread Stephan Beal
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 6:07 PM, wrote: > I'd be very happy if I could just type: > > $ fossil co vim-7.3.154 > > I'd be even happier if I could just type: > > $ fossil co 154 > Not to sound too pessimistic, but... How is fossil supposed to be able to know that 154 is supposed to mean abcdef154

Re: [fossil-users] How to save typing when checking out branches with long names?

2012-08-27 Thread Richard Hipp
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 6:07 PM, wrote: > >> I'd be very happy if I could just type: >> >> $ fossil co vim-7.3.154 >> >> I'd be even happier if I could just type: >> >> $ fossil co 154 >> > > Not to sound too pessimistic, but... > > Yeah. I

Re: [fossil-users] How to save typing when checking out branches with long names?

2012-08-27 Thread Bill Burdick
This sounds like something you could put in a shell script wrapper -- just use "fossil sqlite3". On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:07 AM, wrote: > I have a fossil repository where I keep my vim settings in different > branches. Here is an example output of branch listing: > > $ fossil branch > * trunk

Re: [fossil-users] How to save typing when checking out branches with long names?

2012-08-27 Thread Scott Robison
Just throwing out a couple of ideas: fossil globco 154 Or perhaps slightly less bad: fossil co --glob 154 Though I'm not personally looking for this functionality myself so not having it as an official feature doesn't bother me. SDR On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > >

Re: [fossil-users] How to save typing when checking out branches with long names?

2012-08-27 Thread Stephan Beal
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Scott Robison wrote: > fossil co --glob 154 > > Though I'm not personally looking for this functionality myself so not > having it as an official feature doesn't bother me. FWIW: as Richard said, it's _technically_ easy, but brings with it both philosophical and

Re: [fossil-users] How to save typing when checking out branches with long names?

2012-08-27 Thread Scott Robison
The essence of my suggestion was to not do it by default but to provide a simple way for the user to say "yes, I really want you to search for this substring anywhere" rather than forcing it on everyone. SDR On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 7:18 PM,

[fossil-users] Is there a way to make the web server follow symlinks?

2012-08-27 Thread Stuart Rackham
Hi I'm displaying documentation using the Embedded Documentation feature, the web server returns the contents of symlinks, is there a way to make the web server follow symlinks? Cheers, Stuart ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm

Re: [fossil-users] How to save typing when checking out branches with long names?

2012-08-27 Thread Peter Spjuth
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 6:07 PM, wrote: > I have a fossil repository where I keep my vim settings in different > branches. Here is an example output of branch listing: > > $ fossil branch > * trunk > vim-7.3.000-i486-1-custom > vim-7.3.000-i486-1-default > vim-7.3.154-x86_64-1-custom-big >

Re: [fossil-users] How to save typing when checking out branches with long names?

2012-08-27 Thread vuk
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Stephan Beal > wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 6:07 PM, wrote: >> >>> I'd be very happy if I could just type: >>> >>> $ fossil co vim-7.3.154 >>> >>> I'd be even happier if I could just type: >>> >>> $ fossil co 154 >>> >> >> Not to sound too pessimistic, bu

Re: [fossil-users] How to save typing when checking out branches with long names?

2012-08-27 Thread Stephan Beal
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Peter Spjuth wrote: > Expanding on the bash completion script previously published in this list > by Stuart Rackham, this would give you tab completion on branch names: > +1! Very cool :). -- - stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gp