Re: [fossil-users] Creating new branch/repository problems

2011-10-24 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Matt Welland wrote: > Read Jim Schimpf's excellent book on fossil, the free pdf is here: > > http://www.fossil-scm.org/schimpf-book/doc/tip/fossilbook.pdf > LOL! A bit of trivia: in German to "schimpf" is to swear/curse/scold (depending on the context). So a "S

Re: [fossil-users] Creating new branch/repository problems

2011-10-23 Thread Matt Welland
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Jared Harder wrote: > @Matt: I followed the directions and eventually started up a second server. > I needed to use fossil server instead because I couldn't access the fossil > ui interface from external machines. The README file I edited showed up in > the new

Re: [fossil-users] Creating new branch/repository problems

2011-10-23 Thread Jared Harder
@Matt: I followed the directions and eventually started up a second server. I needed to use fossil server instead because I couldn't access the fossil ui interface from external machines. The README file I edited showed up in the new branch with the changes applied. So perhaps it works because o

Re: [fossil-users] Creating new branch/repository problems

2011-10-21 Thread Richard Hipp
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Jared Harder wrote: > >> >> No matter what command I try, the error message is always the same: >> ./fossil: repository does not exist or is in an unreadable directory: >> /home/drh/sqlite/fossil.fossil >> >>

Re: [fossil-users] Creating new branch/repository problems

2011-10-21 Thread Richard Hipp
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Jared Harder wrote: > > No matter what command I try, the error message is always the same: > ./fossil: repository does not exist or is in an unreadable directory: > /home/drh/sqlite/fossil.fossil > > > Very curious. The /home/drh/sqlite/fossil.fossil pathname is

Re: [fossil-users] Creating new branch/repository problems

2011-10-21 Thread Stephan Beal
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Jared Harder wrote: > ...There is no reference I can find anywhere to /home/drh (by reading this > mailing list a bit, I gather drh is a real person here) > lol! On this particular list that's kind of like asking, "who's Elvis/Bill Gates/Ghandi?" (No offense inte

Re: [fossil-users] Creating new branch/repository problems

2011-10-20 Thread Matt Welland
Lets go though it step by step to ensure we aren't making wrong assumptions about what you are doing. I'm not trying to be condescending, I know you probably already know all this but from the error message it is very unclear what is going on. It looks to me like you are on Linux, is that correct?

Re: [fossil-users] Creating new branch/repository problems

2011-10-20 Thread Jared Harder
I tried this command: ./fossil branch -R groupcomm.fossil new spread groupcomm.fossil I got this response: ./fossil: unable to locate check-in off of which to branch I then tried to make sure that the groupcomm.fossil repository was the one that was "open" by doing ./fossil open groupcomm.fossil

Re: [fossil-users] Creating new branch/repository problems

2011-10-20 Thread Martin Gagnon
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 05:01:50PM -0700, Jared Harder wrote: >Hello all! >I had a Fossil server set up but needed to migrate it to a new server due >to its closure. The normal clone functionality was used to pull over >everything and from what I can tell it's all working properly.

Re: [fossil-users] Creating new branch/repository problems

2011-10-20 Thread Alexandre Sénéchal
Hi, You may start with this page: http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/faq.wiki#q3 I think the problem is that you are trying to create branch outside of an open checkout. Others may correct me if I am wrong. Regards, AlexS On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Jared Harder wrote: > Hello

[fossil-users] Creating new branch/repository problems

2011-10-20 Thread Jared Harder
Hello all! I had a Fossil server set up but needed to migrate it to a new server due to its closure. The normal clone functionality was used to pull over everything and from what I can tell it's all working properly. My problems right now is that I have several uses that need to be submitting th