Re: [fossil-users] symlinks (was Re: xkcd on git)

2015-11-03 Thread Rich Neswold
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Eric Rubin-Smith wrote: > My biggest complaint about this discussion is that some folks seem to be > coming at it like fossil is the first tool to confront this issue. I interpret the discussion as a more philosophical one. Should symlinks be part of a project's c

Re: [fossil-users] symlinks (was Re: xkcd on git)

2015-11-03 Thread Rich Neswold
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Eric Rubin-Smith wrote: >> A user who only ever uses fossil on unix should get unix symlink semantics >> on unix, without quirks or surprises. Surely you and DRH would agree with >> that? > > i can't speak for

Re: [fossil-users] Cancelling a cherry-pick/backout

2015-10-19 Thread Rich Neswold
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > I tried this and the "fossil revert" worked for me - it cleared out > all of the cherrypicks. Looking through my command history I see, whenever I tried 'fossil revert', I also specified a version tag which displayed "the --revision option

[fossil-users] Cancelling a cherry-pick/backout

2015-10-19 Thread Rich Neswold
Hello, I used 'fossil merge --cherry-pick' to grab individual patches from a different branch in my repo. After some thought, I decided I don't want those changes. They weren't committed to my branch so I'm trying to revert to the leaf. I can't seem to find the command to completely undo the cherr

Re: [fossil-users] Web interface timeline rail colors

2015-09-08 Thread Rich Neswold
On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Florian Balmer >> wrote: >>> I'd be happy if these small adaptations could be made. > See https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/artifact/005c758d3?ln=596-625 > for details. Please do feel free to enhance it. Can

Re: [fossil-users] Select specific changes within files

2015-03-21 Thread Rich Neswold
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Andy Bradford wrote: > > Or the opposite. Stash and partial pop, which apparently Fossil can > already handle simply by using the ``right'' diff tool. For example, I > configured Fossil to use idiff as my gdiff command > > $ fossil set gdiff-command idiff >

Re: [fossil-users] Alternative "skin" for the main Fossil website

2015-02-11 Thread Rich Neswold
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > You can now access the Fossil self-hosting repository using the "San > Francisco Modern" skin at: > > https://www.fossil-scm.org/skin2 > > Please let me know if you see any problems with the look of this > alternative skin. > Looks nice!

Re: [fossil-users] Some peanut gallerizing

2015-01-15 Thread Rich Neswold
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Ron W wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Rich Neswold > wrote: > >> Maybe the fossil schema can be enhanced by adding triggers that prevent >> UPDATEs from occurring on critical columns. >> > > Not sure how much value that

Re: [fossil-users] Some peanut gallerizing

2015-01-15 Thread Rich Neswold
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Kelly Dean wrote: > Stephan Beal wrote: > >> You _cannot_ change it, so i'm not sure what your point is there. >> All fossil data is immutable. >> > > You _can_ change it, but if you do so, then you break things, which of > course is what you mean by ‟you cannot c

Re: [fossil-users] Some peanut gallerizing

2015-01-15 Thread Rich Neswold
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Stephan Beal > wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:40 AM, Kelly Dean wrote: >> >>> The NetBSD people would probably be happy to spend a few GB of disk >>> space on that cache in exchange for Fossil being f

Re: [fossil-users] can fossil try harder on sync failure?

2014-05-08 Thread Rich Neswold
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Andy Bradford wrote: > Thus said Doug Franklin on Thu, 08 May 2014 23:00:03 -0400: > >> Does SQLite support nested transactions? If so, that would seem to be >> worth considering. > > It does appear to support them: > > https://www.sqlite.org/lang_transaction.html

Re: [fossil-users] can fossil try harder on sync failure?

2014-05-08 Thread Rich Neswold
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:59 AM, Andy Bradford wrote: > Thus said Rich Neswold on Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:40:23 -0500: > >> It would be nice if fossil would break the "pull" into smaller >> transactions which contain valid timeline commits so, if there'

Re: [fossil-users] can fossil try harder on sync failure?

2014-05-02 Thread Rich Neswold
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Rich Neswold wrote: > That's right, my write-ahead file is 177 GB (16x the expected size of > the final repository!) > > I'm doing a "fossil sqlite" and it's slowly trying to apply the > transaction, but I really don'

Re: [fossil-users] can fossil try harder on sync failure?

2014-05-02 Thread Rich Neswold
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Rich Neswold wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Rich Neswold wrote: >> It would be nice if fossil would break the "pull" into smaller >> transactions which contain valid timeline commits so, if there's a >> database t

Re: [fossil-users] can fossil try harder on sync failure?

2014-04-17 Thread Rich Neswold
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > Every project as a "project-id", which is supposed to be unique. Fossil > recognizes when the project-ids do not match and refuses to sync. > > That said, there is nothing to prevent a clever individual, like Joerg, from > manually setting a

Re: [fossil-users] can fossil try harder on sync failure?

2014-04-17 Thread Rich Neswold
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > Please note that while moving to a newer, faster server I also moved to > source to /cvsroot to match "real" CVS. That was responsible for quite a > few changes. So I'm sync'ing a completely new repository on top of mine? A fossil repos

Re: [fossil-users] can fossil try harder on sync failure?

2014-04-17 Thread Rich Neswold
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Rich Neswold wrote: > It would be even nicer if it didn't throw away partial "pull" data on > a DB timeout: > > I'm trying to pull the latest NetBSD changes (to pull in the > Heartbleed fixes) and my session keeps fa

Re: [fossil-users] can fossil try harder on sync failure?

2014-04-16 Thread Rich Neswold
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > It would also be nice if clone didn't abort with removal of the > repository on such errors. pull/push should return an error etc. > There are a bunch of basic usability issues in this area. This is made > worse by pull not being read-o

Re: [fossil-users] G+ Fossil page?

2014-03-19 Thread Rich Neswold
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > i just came across this G+ post: > > https://plus.google.com/100252397521353238214/posts/hW7ErV11uNB > > (For non-googlers; it's a release announcement for Fossil 1.28) > > and thought, "why haven't we been doing that all along?" It simply ne

Re: [fossil-users] Scalability limits

2014-02-07 Thread Rich Neswold
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > i'd be interested in seeing the output of 'dbstat' on your repo, except that > it could take some time for it to finish generating its output (so don't > feel obligated to try it). Here's the info for the current fossil core repo: I have anot

[fossil-users] Scalability limits

2014-02-07 Thread Rich Neswold
Hello, I first want to say what a terrific version control manager Fossil is! I took my first serious look at Fossil last week and have already converted a few of my personal projects away from 'git'. The built-in bug tracker and wiki are genius touches! Thank you, Fossil community, for your effor