Re: [fossil-users] Unusable Repo

2010-11-01 Thread Benjohn Barnes
On 1 Nov 2010, at 01:43, D. Richard Hipp wrote: > The repository is probably fine - it is your checkout that is out-of-date. > Please try: > > fossil close > fossil open ../old-repo.fossil > > Please let us know if that doesn't fix your problem. Yes! That fixed it :-) Thanks. (The clo

[fossil-users] Unusable Repo

2010-10-31 Thread Benjohn Barnes
Hi, I've got a fossil repo I've not used for about a year and a half. I've updated my fossil binary a few times and moved machine (architecture, from PPC Mac to Intel Mac) in that time. When I try to perform operations, I get this result: > BetfairDev # fossil chan -v > fossil: SQLITE_ERROR: n

Re: [fossil-users] Evaluating Fossil and have a question

2010-09-03 Thread Benjohn Barnes
> So I thought that might have meant multiple, distinct trees, similar to > how one can have branches in Git with independent directory structures > but all separate from each other, even if they are stored in the same > repository. > > I'm wondering how difficult/desirable it might be to support

[fossil-users] Projects Structuring

2010-08-24 Thread Benjohn Barnes
Hi, My current practice is to have a fossil repo per project. I've committed the (cardinal) sin of duplicating shared files between projects. I want to fix this. Conceptually I'd like to have one huge repo for everything (individual projects and all common files), and maintain working copies

Re: [fossil-users] fossil-users Digest, Vol 30, Issue 23

2010-07-27 Thread Benjohn Barnes
On 27 Jul 2010, at 11:37, Zed wrote: > But again, none of this matters for my point. I'm not talking about > wiki, I'm talking about HTML documentation. If there was a way to > generate HTML using any of the many docs generators out there, and then > check it into fossil so that fossil styles i

[fossil-users] Purpose of Fossil's wiki system

2010-07-27 Thread Benjohn Barnes
On 27 Jul 2010, at 11:37, Rene wrote: > Maybe it is good to take a step back and state first what the purpose > is of the wiki system in fossil. > Which will give guidance to us all. Excellent question! I don't use it at all, so I've no clue why it generates so much fuss :-) (I'm a sole develope

[fossil-users] Extra files and new files

2010-02-10 Thread Benjohn Barnes
Problem I forget to add in new files that I create. This leads to me creating one or more check-ins that aren't a complete representation of the working set of files. Worse, the new files are often the ones that I'm working on most actively because they're new. Suggestion

[fossil-users] Extra files and new files

2010-02-10 Thread Benjohn Barnes
Problem I forget to add in new files that I create. This leads to me creating one or more check-ins that aren't a complete representation of the working set of files. Worse, the new files are often the ones that I'm working on most actively because they're new. Suggestion

Re: [fossil-users] Graphical display of fork/merge actions in timeline

2010-02-09 Thread Benjohn Barnes
On 8 Feb 2010, at 16:53, D. Richard Hipp wrote: > Test version at http://www.fossil-scm.org/test/fossil/timeline? > n=20&y=ci - please provide feedback. > > Other interesting views: > > http://www.fossil-scm.org/test/fossil/timeline?n=20&y=ci&b=2010-01-25 > http://www.fossil-scm.org/test/

[fossil-users] Manifest files

2009-12-18 Thread Benjohn Barnes
On 18 Dec 2009, at 00:01, D. Richard Hipp wrote: > The manifest and manifest.uuid files are not used by Fossil. Fossil > makes those files available for the convenience of the application and > the application's makefile. For example, the makefile for SQLite > extracts information from its man

[fossil-users] "fossil mv" bug. Reproduction script provided.

2009-12-11 Thread Benjohn Barnes
I described this a few days ago, but not very coherently. Here's another try. I'm happy to bung this in a tracker somewhere if someone hands me a url. Problem: I believe there is a bug with "fossil mv": it lets me move a file outside of the change controlled tree, at which point ther

Re: [fossil-users] Bug? A file moved outside of checkin tree

2009-12-10 Thread Benjohn Barnes
I offered a (horrible) work around. Fortunately, I thought better of it for my particular case, where my working set was in the middle of a merge. Instead, I've used sqlite on the command line to find a row in the vfile table and correct it's "pathname" so it's where I meant to move it to

[fossil-users] Bug? A file moved outside of checking tree.

2009-12-10 Thread Benjohn Barnes
Hi, I've managed to get my working copy in to a funny state. I performed a "fossil mv" on a file, and gave a destination outside of the checkin tree. Fossil was happy to perform this operation, but now I'm not able to correct the mistake. If I try to move the file back in, I get the error

Re: [fossil-users] 3 Feature requests - globbing using the repository.

2009-12-10 Thread Benjohn Barnes
On 9 Dec 2009, at 21:21, fossil-users-requ...@lists.fossil-scm.org wrote: > Which is exactly why "fossil rm *.foo" should delete *.foo from the > file system as well as from the repository. If you forget, and do "rm > *.foo", then you can ask fossil to give you the files back, and then > do "f

[fossil-users] 3 Feature requests – globbing u sing the repository.

2009-12-09 Thread Benjohn Barnes
Hi, Three things keep catching me with Fossil. Am I being stupid and missing something? If not, I'd like to propose them as areas for enhancement. 1) I'd like to be able to delete a folder. I think Fossil doesn't track folder, which is fine – if I say: fossil rm … I'd like it to be

Re: [fossil-users] The case for Markdown (yes, I rtfm)

2009-11-30 Thread Benjohn Barnes
> I'm not going to bother stopping it, nor did I plan to. I was only > showing > you what the first 10m showed. Now? > > YES: 13 > NO: 3 > > Any: 13 > Markdown: 3 > Creole: 1 Don't forget to add in the "Apathetic" or "Not sure"s. I'm so unsure and apathetic, I don't remember which one I picked

Re: [fossil-users] Joshua Paine

2009-11-25 Thread Benjohn Barnes
Joshua Paine wrote about having a script recursively add and remove to make the repository reflect what is currently on disk (please correct me if this isn't a fair summary!). While this might be sufficient for some usage patterns, I don't think this is a great solution in general. The major

[fossil-users] UI Enhancement – was: fossil and zip files

2009-10-21 Thread Benjohn Barnes
On 21 Oct 2009, at 18:52, fossil-users-requ...@lists.fossil-scm.org wrote: > Two highly skilled programmers failed to notice an important feature > of fossil. This screams "User Interface Problem!" Does anybody have > a suggested remedy? The "Leaves" and "Timeline" views could be modified so

Re: [fossil-users] Retrospective Branch

2009-10-08 Thread Benjohn Barnes
On 8 Oct 2009, at 13:00, fossil-users-requ...@lists.fossil-scm.org replied about creating a retrospective branch: > This is easier to do from the web interface. > > (1) Bring up the web interface (by typing "fossil ui" from an open > checkout) > > (2) On the timeline, locate the check-in that y

[fossil-users] Retrospective Branch

2009-10-08 Thread Benjohn Barnes
Hi, A project I have has one branch – the trunk. I've been away from this project for a few weeks, and on returning to it, I've decided that the most recent commit (in which I switched over to using OpenGL for rendering) is not something I want to pursue at the moment. I would like to plac

[fossil-users] gdiff - was: Some questions about fossil

2009-10-07 Thread Benjohn Barnes
On 4 Oct 2009, at 13:00, fossil-users-requ...@lists.fossil-scm.org wrote: > 5- How to make a gdiff of two repository versions (not a diff a > gdiff)? I've tried to make a gdiff of current version with a > repository version (the first chars of the sha of the version) , like > this: > >fossi

[fossil-users] "fossil revert" globbing

2009-05-15 Thread Benjohn Barnes
Hi, I'd like to have a way to revert several files at a time, and particularly, to revert all files that match a glob pattern. Eg, I'd like to be able to do: fossil revert * To revert everything in this folder, and fossil revert ImageController.* to revert ImageController.h

Re: [fossil-users] Use of FileMerge as a gdiff agent on OS X

2009-05-13 Thread Benjohn Barnes
I wrote: > Hmmm. Presumably the solution would be to either have opendiff support a > "synchronous" flag, or some kind of delay before return, or to introduce > a hacky delay in to gdiff invocation? In case this is useful to anyone - if FileMerge is already running, then things seem to work o

[fossil-users] Use of FileMerge as a gdiff agent on OS X

2009-05-12 Thread Benjohn Barnes
Hi, OS X has a (pretty tasty) graphical merge tool called FileMerge, which can be invoked from the shell using the command 'opendiff'. The opendiff command's syntax is: opendiff file1 file2 [-ancestor ancestorFile] [-merge mergeFile] I've tried setting this as fossil's gdiff client, and it

[fossil-users] SQL interface [Was: fossil slow on binary file changes]

2009-03-20 Thread Benjohn Barnes
Perhaps this is too heavy weight (and perhaps it's really obvious), but a sensible approach might be to provide a set views to the users, rather than direct table access? * These could probably provide more suitable information for scripting than raw tables, * They would provide abstracti

Re: [fossil-users] fossil chan + fossil ext in one?

2009-03-10 Thread Benjohn Barnes
Eric: > OK, I see the point, but for many people the working directory usually > contains lots of extra files - the results and intermediates of a build. > The result of a "fossil extra" would not be very helpful in this case. I > suspect it of being one of those cases where it would be difficult

Re: [fossil-users] fossil chan + fossil ext in one?

2009-03-09 Thread Benjohn Barnes
Thanks Eric and Michael. Ah - I didn't make myself at all clear here, sorry. What I'm after is for something like "fossil change" to also show _extra_ files that "fossil extra" would show (_not_ _added_ files as I incorrectly said in my post. Sorry.). So If I do this: EdgeRuby # fossil change

[fossil-users] fossil chan + fossil ext in one?

2009-03-09 Thread Benjohn Barnes
Hi, is there a fossil command that will summarise both the files that I have changed, and any files that I have added? Or is it possible for me to configure one of the existing commands to show me both of these things? This seems to me as if it would be pretty useful, but perhaps there is a goo