Re: [fossil-users] Fossil's (lack of) use of the Ticket system

2018-08-06 Thread Shal Farley
with a dynamic drop-down of suggested posts while typing their subject line. People accustomed to that behavior in Google search may find it natural to select an existing subject text to see what's there. Shal Farley Cheshire Engineering Corporation +1 626 303 1602 http:/

Re: [fossil-users] About to merge the forum-v2 branch

2018-08-02 Thread Shal Farley
he occasional post which needs it; but even in a forum where quoting when you reply is uncommon or unheard of, I find that I usually have enough context from just the emails. Shal Shal Farley Cheshire Engineering Corporation +1 626 303 1602 http://www.CheshireEng.com __

Re: [fossil-users] [sqlite] Mailing list shutting down...

2018-06-14 Thread Shal Farley
On 2018-06-14 1:47 PM, Warren Young wrote: I’m not aware of any mailing list that doesn’t require a password, if only via some outer SSO provider. Such a thing would be a spammer’s paradise, if it existed. In Groups.io creating and using a password is optional, because so

Re: [fossil-users] Mailing list shutting down...

2018-06-14 Thread Shal Farley
On 2018-06-13 7:05 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: I would like to provide users the option to send messages formatted using Markdown. Are there Markdown libraries available in TCL that I can use, that you know of? Groups.io supports Markdown (web posting only). Messages composed

Re: [fossil-users] Mailing list shutting down...

2018-06-13 Thread Shal Farley
On 2018-06-13 4:28 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: Unfortunately, I'm going to need to shut down this mailing list due to robot harassment. I am working to come up with a fix or an alternative now. Your suggestions are welcomed. If you're open to a commercial mailing list with web archive features I'd

Re: [fossil-users] Couple of beginner questions

2017-03-31 Thread Shal Farley
than I thought - someone has already ported it to Windows, Mac and Linux: https://github.com/blakemcbride/TECOC As someone who once wrote ad-hoc utilities as TECO macros, all I can say is: No. Shal -- Shal Farley Cheshire Engineering Corporation +1 626 303 1602 http://www.CheshireE

Re: [fossil-users] remote check in

2016-10-22 Thread Shal Farley
ss is simple and direct, and use fossil's sync feature to deliver checkins to remote servers. In a multi-developer situation each developer would work with their own local repositories, in sync with a common server. Shal -- Shal Farley Cheshire Engineering Corporation http://www.Chesh

Re: [fossil-users] remote check in

2016-10-22 Thread Shal Farley
K, It would be helpful to the other members of this list if you would not chime in with provocative non-sequiturs when you don't know the answer. Just my humble opinion. Shal (see, you trolled me out of my lurking state) -- Shal Farley Cheshire Engineering Corporation

Re: [fossil-users] diff after update

2015-09-11 Thread Shal Farley
update command). -- Shal -- Shal Farley s...@cheshireeng.com Cheshire Engineering Corporation http://www.CheshireEng.com 120 West Olive Avenue+1 626 303 1602 Monrovia, CA 91016

Re: [fossil-users] How to force text for all files?

2014-12-08 Thread Shal Farley
Stephan, > If it has ANY bytes above 127, it's not, by definition, ASCII. i.e. > "it's binary." I would disagree with part of this statement. I agree that ASCII defines only the 7-bit code values, but I think this whole thread has run off the rails in talking about the content values as determ

Re: [fossil-users] File contains invalid UTF-8, but is not UTF-8.

2014-07-08 Thread Shal Farley
r valid UTF-8, but UTF-8 represents all code points higher than 127 as a sequence of bytes in the 128 to 255 range. Those byte sequences have a structure, so it is possible to tell if a string of bytes in that range represents a valid UTF-8 sequence. -- Shal -- Shal Farley

Re: [fossil-users] What is changes or status trying to tell me when it lists files as "MISSING"?

2014-06-30 Thread Shal Farley
ates to them will be treated as edits to the current version" -- I'm hoping that clearly enough says that the checkout's version remains unchanged, that the checkout is not updated to VERSION in the FILES case. -- Shal On 6/27/2014 7:57 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: On Sat, Jun 28

Re: [fossil-users] What is changes or status trying to tell me when it lists files as "MISSING"?

2014-06-28 Thread Shal Farley
stephan, >> In the literal sense, yes. But (if I'm getting this right) the deeper >> message was that the checkout knew about them because it itself was not >> updated to the "latest" commit - the one in which I'd rm'd the files. >> Hence my confusion over "MISSING from what?". > > Your underst

Re: [fossil-users] What is changes or status trying to tell me when it lists files as "MISSING"?

2014-06-27 Thread Shal Farley
stephan, >> In this case what MISSING was really trying to tell me was that my >> sandbox wasn't at the revision I thought it was. > > That's not quite right - MISSING means that the checkout knows about the > files, but can't find them (because you rm'd them). In the literal sense, yes. But (i

Re: [fossil-users] What is changes or status trying to tell me when it lists files as "MISSING"?

2014-06-27 Thread Shal Farley
names so that they are no longer missing. -- Shal Farley s...@cheshireeng.com Cheshire Engineering Corporation http://www.CheshireEng.com 120 West Olive Avenue+1 626 303 1602 Monrovia, CA 91016

[fossil-users] What is changes or status trying to tell me when it lists files as "MISSING"?

2014-06-27 Thread Shal Farley
I could put a copy of them back and let update delete the copies, but that seems rather pointless. Section /5.2.5 status/ of fossilbook20 is rather sparse. It could use a table of the possible status values (EDITED, MISSING, etc.), and what they imply about the files. -- Shal (A fossil newbie, wi