[fossil-users] FINFO suggestion

2014-10-16 Thread Tony Papadimitriou
FINFO (Usage: fossil finfo ?OPTIONS? FILENAME) is one of the most useful features of fossil as it accepts a filename and provides its history of changes (unfortunately, it does not follow possible file renames, but that’s another issue). What I would like is to have the possibility to also spec

Re: [fossil-users] SVN <--> Fossil & Chiselapp hosting

2014-10-16 Thread Ron W
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Ron W wrote: > But that's just the executive summary. The details will require much > research, planning and design. > After doing some research, I was reminded that SVN branches (and tags) are implemented as copy-by-reference. This means that the definition of a

Re: [fossil-users] JSON Web Client not in fossil pages

2014-10-16 Thread Ron W
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > i'm not aware of any WWW feature of fossil which uses checkout-level data > except maybe to display versioned settings. > For embedded documents: baseURL/doc/version/path if version is "ckout", then the file in the associated working sp

[fossil-users] vendor branches, patches, and ancestors

2014-10-16 Thread B Harder
I'm maintaining a large(ish) repo for production deployments of various software like Apache httpd, OpenSSL, etc. What I have is a [vendor] branch for the vanilla vendor software (ie: httpd-2.2.27.tar.gz), and "feature branches" for configuration/tweaks (ie: [redhat_build] for building for redhat

Re: [fossil-users] JSON Web Client not in fossil pages

2014-10-16 Thread Stephan Beal
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > There is no commit API for JSON. > Addenda: any hypothetical commit-like behaviour would be limited to text data (specifically, UTF8), as JSON does not support binary data directly (only via 3rd-party encodings like base64). _In theory_ (acc

Re: [fossil-users] JSON Web Client not in fossil pages

2014-10-16 Thread Stephan Beal
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Carlos Alberto Ruiz Uribe < carlos.ru...@softtek.com> wrote: > I would like to create a simply Web Client that will work likes the > desktop application Fuel-scm using the JSON-API, I have reviewed the JSON > API Documentation, and i ‘m wondering: > > > How t