Re: [fossil-users] Cannot determine user when using -A

2014-06-08 Thread Ron Wilson
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 3:25 PM, B Harder wrote: > Fossil certainly will spawn external programs if you: > > 1) start a commit w/o a command-line commit message > > 2) run a did with an external diff-command configured. > I had been thinking about hooks and discussion of multi platform support iss

Re: [fossil-users] Cannot determine user when using -A

2014-06-08 Thread Richard Hipp
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 3:25 PM, B Harder wrote: > Fossil certainly will spawn external programs if you: > > 1) start a commit w/o a command-line commit message > > 2) run a did with an external diff-command configured. > > , maybe others. > > 3) A new process is started to handle each incoming HT

Re: [fossil-users] Cannot determine user when using -A

2014-06-08 Thread B Harder
Fossil certainly will spawn external programs if you: 1) start a commit w/o a command-line commit message 2) run a did with an external diff-command configured. , maybe others. On Jun 7, 2014 12:00 PM, "Ron Wilson" wrote: > On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Stephan Beal > wrote: > >> >> On Sat

Re: [fossil-users] Cannot determine user when using -A

2014-06-07 Thread Ron Wilson
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Will Parsons > wrote: > >> Or you should be able to simply set the environment variable: >> >> $ USER=philip_bennefall >> >> and then you don't need to worry about the -A or --user options. >> > > That would

Re: [fossil-users] Cannot determine user when using -A

2014-06-07 Thread Will Parsons
Stephan Beal wrote: > --===0473655165== > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7ba972dac592b704fb40f859 > > --047d7ba972dac592b704fb40f859 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Will Parsons wrote: > >> Or you should be able to simply

Re: [fossil-users] Cannot determine user when using -A

2014-06-07 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Will Parsons wrote: > Or you should be able to simply set the environment variable: > > $ USER=philip_bennefall > > and then you don't need to worry about the -A or --user options. > That would work, but note that many programs use $USER to create strings (paths)

Re: [fossil-users] Cannot determine user when using -A

2014-06-07 Thread Will Parsons
Philip Bennefall wrote: > I have been experimenting with Fossil for a few days now and am really > liking it so far. I am in the process of switching all my old SVN > repositories to Fossil and haven't had any trouble. > > However, I ran into an issue when creating a new repository today. To > i

Re: [fossil-users] Cannot determine user when using -A

2014-06-06 Thread Jan Nijtmans
2014-06-06 2:13 GMT+02:00 Philip Bennefall : > fossil user default philip_bennefall > > And I get the same message again. It says that it cannot determine user. I > don't want to use my computer username for the repository, but I can only > get it working if I don't pass -A to fossil new. Any hints

[fossil-users] Cannot determine user when using -A

2014-06-05 Thread Philip Bennefall
I have been experimenting with Fossil for a few days now and am really liking it so far. I am in the process of switching all my old SVN repositories to Fossil and haven't had any trouble. However, I ran into an issue when creating a new repository today. To illustrate: fossil new dummy.foss