[fossil-users] Split wiki, tickets, and commits?

2015-05-07 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
I reliably tell what's a wiki-change artifact? The fileformat.wiki page suggests that any artifact that looks like a wiki page artifact is one, but I'm not clear on how this stops files in that form committed to a repo from then popping up as wiki pages... Thanks, ABS -- Alaric S

[fossil-users] Feature idea: Mailing lists / discussion forums

2015-04-24 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
ith a one-line summary would be nice too, but I can't have a pony AND a unicorn ;-) ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users

Re: [fossil-users] Examples of public Fossil repositories

2015-01-06 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
t to you; it's where I host my multiple open-source repos - all with a scripting system (see https://kitten-technologies.co.uk/project/kitten-technologies for the repo hosting THAT) that keeps them all skinned the same. And custom CSS/navigation. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snel

Re: [fossil-users] fossil for web site maintenance [was "how to use git to lose data"]

2014-09-08 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
epo stuff like the skin gets rolled out from the central configuration by a script. It... works! And keeps down the maintenance cost for me of a heap of fossil repos for my crazy open-source outpourings. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ sign

Re: [fossil-users] Anecdote regarding permissions tracking in Fossil

2013-10-21 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
ccidental zapping of the files themselves, but I still like my cron-jobbed daily snapshot backups, as they'll catch any uncommitted work I have! ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __

Re: [fossil-users] Anecdote regarding permissions tracking in Fossil

2013-10-21 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 07/10/13 23:27, Joseph R. Justice wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Alaric Snell-Pym > mailto:ala...@snell-pym.org.uk>> wrote: > > > I've written a backup/archival tool based on content-addressible > storage, and a common question people ask i

Re: [fossil-users] Anecdote regarding permissions tracking in Fossil

2013-09-23 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
controlled repository" with a "release". I've written a backup/archival tool based on content-addressible storage, and a common question people ask is "So why don't I just put my home directory/entire filesystem in git, then?", and I have to raise this aspect of

Re: [fossil-users] Memorable names for ticket IDs

2013-09-16 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
ll these NSA project names Snowden's leaked. BULLRUN, CHEESY NAME, etc :-D Now, how apart names for commits, too? "This bug was introduced by commit ABSENT FRIEND TROUSERS..." ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: [fossil-users] New option --keep, and setting "keep-glob" for "fossil clean"

2013-05-21 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 14/05/13 16:11, Jan Nijtmans wrote: I think you will like this. I do! [snip] Feedback appreciated! I *love* it :-D ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org

Re: [fossil-users] New option --keep, and setting "keep-glob" for "fossil clean"

2013-05-07 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
ied when fossil recurs into a subdirectory and gets its own directory listings of files. So, should "fossil add" automatically strip (perhaps with a warning) files passed to its command line that match the ignore-glob, unless a "--force" is specified? ABS - --

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2013-01-07 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
into one big change. Yep; that hides all the private branch history into the private repo, though - what I'm talking about *looks* like that but has the history available to everyone if you "expand" the commit by clicking on a [+] in the web UI or some such. ABS - -- Alaric

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil vs. Git/Mercurial/etc.?

2013-01-03 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
in the timeline. Might that be a useful approach for Fossil, too? ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlDluxYACgkQ

Re: [fossil-users] comparison with Git

2012-10-09 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
n amicable manner. As much as possible should be contributed to the original Fossil and then pulled into the fork, but the fork can accept direct contributions that Original Fossil won't. ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: [fossil-users] The future of markdown-in-fossil

2012-08-07 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
x27;ll do things with the inbuilt wiki if a user community develops around any of them and non-contributors seem to want to contribute stuff! ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with

Re: [fossil-users] Revisions between two commits

2011-11-29 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
ut as this is most useful for scripts that build on top of fossil, perhaps the issue is more one of whether it should be exposed via the JSON stuff (if it isn't already). Which, I gather, is accessible from the CLI as well as via HTTP, right? ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk

[fossil-users] Revisions between two commits

2011-11-29 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
nd revisions! Am I missing a trick? Should I write a patch for fossil to add "show me the revisions between X and Y in a simple format" (including error handling for cases where there is no direct path from X to Y!)? ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ --

Re: [fossil-users] Web UI Refresh Issue

2011-11-08 Thread alaric
The best thing to do would be to get a tcpdump of the http traffic... tcpdump -i lo -s 65535 -w http.pcap tcp port 8080 ...should get you a file called http.pcap; "lo" is the correct -i for Linux's localhost, use "lo0" for BSDs, or sonething else for Windows (IIRC Windows tcpdump has an option

Re: [fossil-users] feature list?

2011-10-21 Thread alaric
Relatedly (so may be easy to do at the same time, or leave hooks to do it later), I think it might be useful to pull from a repo with a prefix added to all tags/branches. Sort of like git remote branches, to examine some changes without them being able to mess up your own state. Sent from my Bl

Re: [fossil-users] Veracity

2011-10-19 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
replicated, scoped to branches, and all that jazz. ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6e54UACgkQRgz/WHNxCGoJpACcCb2CEFRnyD

Re: [fossil-users] Listing artifact IDs for shunning?

2011-10-05 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
when trying to get an object that is missing because it was shunned! > > Eric > ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6MI

Re: [fossil-users] delete a branch

2011-10-03 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
s by default, with a button to show them; I presume this should be fairly simple. 2) A sensible UI to easily put the propogating tag in place on a given check-in 3) Documentation thereof > > Kind regards, > Remigiusz Modrzejewski > ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.or

Re: [fossil-users] minor milestone: Java client

2011-10-01 Thread alaric
I thought that was how fossil over ssh works already; on the far end fossil is started with some undocumented private command that talks http over stdin/stdout. you may well find your JSON work works transparently with that mechanism too due to it being baked into the fossil http stack! Sent fr

Re: [fossil-users] Protection against timing attacks

2011-09-30 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
ng response time, power consumption, spikes on the power lines caused by transistor switching... and maybe even feed the same request through again and again while bombarding the card with radiation to try and cause random bit flips within its circuitry and seeing how this affects the result. ABS

Re: [fossil-users] Scalability, a single file commit and lots of disk reads

2011-09-29 Thread alaric
Just a thought - is there some virus-scanning software involved, that feels a need to scan every file opened? Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Lluís Batlle i Rossell Sender: fossil-users-boun...@lists.fossil-scm.org Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:55:45 To:

Re: [fossil-users] authentication in JSON: anonymous vs. guest user

2011-09-13 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/13/2011 04:24 PM, Ron Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 4:30 AM, Alaric Snell-Pym > wrote: >> by context, but it might be worth including JSON and human-HTML versions >> of each URL, like so: >> >> {

Re: [fossil-users] authentication in JSON: anonymous vs. guest user

2011-09-13 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
ure if "LinkType" is necessary as it'll presumably be implied by context, but it might be worth including JSON and human-HTML versions of each URL, like so: { ...stufff about a commit... "parents" : { "" : { "json" : "http://..j

Re: [fossil-users] Draft doc for JSON/REST Fossil interface

2011-09-09 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
t; would be happy to assist you in this, and i think it can be done > incrementally, taking a long time to do but having no outwardly effect on > the apps. What will this mean for the famed "single binary, just copy it into your PATH" effect? Will said single binary still exist and st

Re: [fossil-users] CR/NL warning in .pdf

2011-09-06 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
gt; And the more important question: should we make fossil to treat all pdf files > to be binary? Yes. They are binary files. The fact that they contain lots of ASCII text is misleading - they can't be treated as text files. ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/

Re: [fossil-users] Diff after move

2011-09-02 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
consensus was that fossil's design "doesn't immediately lend well" to > solving that. Or maybe it's just that nobody's pitched in yet to do it. AIUI, both git and fossil store each commit as a full tree; such cleverness is purely in the hands of the diff algorithm

Re: [fossil-users] Soapbox: man, i love fossil...

2011-08-17 Thread alaric
I've not used Fossil much, but I'm migrating my personal stuff over to it based on extensive research into which DVCS I'd like to use! I found I only really mastered git after using it to collaborate with others (eg, so I had hairy merges to deal with...) so I still look forward to finding a co

Re: [fossil-users] _FOSSIL_ vs. .fos Was: New features for, merging

2011-08-13 Thread alaric
How about always calling new files .fossil (and accepting existing other names), *and* setting the hidden flag on Windows? Then the documentation is the same for both: a hidden file called .fossil... --Original Message-- From: Steve Havelka Sender: fossil-users-boun...@lists.fossil-scm.or

Re: [fossil-users] New features for merging

2011-08-12 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
ened from the commit log. Aye. My "fossil extras > .fossil-settings/ignore_glob" brought a smile to my lips. ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigm

Re: [fossil-users] New features for merging

2011-08-12 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/12/2011 04:04 PM, Ben Summers wrote: > > On 12 Aug 2011, at 15:54, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 08/12/2011 11:47 AM, Ben Summers wrote: >>> >&

Re: [fossil-users] New features for merging

2011-08-12 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
t need to be part of Fossil - one could just have an empty-dirs file and a script you run after checkout (dare I say "hook"? Nah, best not...) that ensures they all exist? ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4

Re: [fossil-users] content does not mach sha1 hash

2011-08-09 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
run out of disk space at any point... ...shortage of disk space can result in files being creatable (taking up already-allocated space in inode tables and directory entries) but then not being writable (leading to zero-length files). ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.or

Re: [fossil-users] Automatic branch color selection. Was: Question on short-lived branches in fossil

2011-07-23 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
bold corporate colour scheme could restrict H somewhat if blue just really clashed with their headers! :-) ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossi

Re: [fossil-users] WHY IS FOSSIL REMOVING ALL MY CODE!

2011-05-23 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
branch shenanigans. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users

Re: [fossil-users] Actually Removing A Garbage Ticket

2011-04-14 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 04/14/11 15:28, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: > On 04/14/11 15:23, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: >> What giveth? > > PS: I'm testing that on: > > This is fossil version [84e755e213] 2011-03-16 11:19:14 UTC Updated to: This is fossil version [289ea2a9b6] 2011-04-14 14:23:52 UTC

Re: [fossil-users] Actually Removing A Garbage Ticket

2011-04-14 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 04/14/11 15:23, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: > What giveth? PS: I'm testing that on: This is fossil version [84e755e213] 2011-03-16 11:19:14 UTC ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ fossil-users mailing list foss

Re: [fossil-users] Actually Removing A Garbage Ticket

2011-04-14 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
the ticket still appears in the All Tickets report, even without having had any history added to it; I just made the ticket. What giveth? ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossi

Re: [fossil-users] tracking cherry-picked merges?

2011-04-12 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 04/12/11 14:37, Richard Hipp wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Alaric Snell-Pym > wrote: > >> What are people's use-cases for cherry picks, out of interest? >> > > Back-porting important bug fixes from trunk to an historical version > branch. For ex

Re: [fossil-users] tracking cherry-picked merges?

2011-04-12 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
s but not others, in which case the merge problem is theirs when they merge my latest trunk into their branch. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fos

Re: [fossil-users] tracking cherry-picked merges?

2011-04-11 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
hoping the system realises it's got some changes already present due to cherry-picking and doesn't explode about conflicts if so... ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil on Hammer Principle

2011-03-30 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
sneaking into the system via the back route. > S. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil social networking

2011-03-29 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
d presumably be repo-specific rather than part of the global state, is that a problem? > > Paul > ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:

Re: [fossil-users] Basic FossilHub functionality works

2011-03-28 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
il. I dunno if the social networking stuff will take off or not... but the fact it can be implemented like this is amazing! Well done to you and to Richard for making Fossil flexible through simplicity ;-) [What a geeky answer. "Dunno about the social stuff, what an awesome gadget" ;-)]

[fossil-users] Fossil on Hammer Principle

2011-03-24 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
me of writing, only two people have expressed opinions on Fossil (and I'm one of them). Let's fix that :-) Enjoy, ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists