Forum Reply: Setup needed to move local "remote" repository to a server
... write a readonly database: {INSERT INTO config(name,value,mtime)VALUES(?baseurl:https://REDACTED?,1,now())} This page was generated in about 0.007s by Fossil 2.22 [66ee0beb9b] 2023-05-31 15:26:08 (2023-06-04)Forum Post: fts5 search for term containing colon
... for question I'm trying to collect a small list of various interwiki links for later, which generally look like src:/timeline?c=1347a1ddb9a565e9 which renders like 1347a1ddb9a5 and some that look like fossil:/doc ... (2023-05-28)Forum Post: Bug in empty-dirs setting
... say I have the following line in my empty-dirs file: Test Folder/My Subfolder This will generate the following *three* top level folders: Test Folder Subfolder And inside "Folder" will be a folder named ... (2023-05-21)Forum Reply: RFE: A Personal Database System
... big difference between your vision and what I'm thinking of though. You are talking about building general Access-like functionality on top of Fossil, that non-developer skilled users can put to good use ... (2023-05-12)Forum Reply: How to see what's on a remote, and how to reset to one side of a fork?
... repo, obviously those changes can not get pushed to remote until you go back on-line. But, generally speaking, the remote and the local repo have all the same info, or nearly so. The default ... (2023-05-12)Forum Reply: Can I hide branches from Reader logged in users? Or have private internal data?
... is fine for the specific example I'm thinking of, but is probably too limiting for a general case. Why not just export the code identified by the "beta" branch as a static .zip (or ... (2023-05-12)Forum Reply: RFE: A Personal Database System
... engine - say, duckdb backed by CSV or Parquet files. Another possibility is to have some sort of generic mechanism for inserting cards, triggers that convert SQL rows to cards, and then views to present the ... (2023-05-12)Forum Reply: mercurial to fossil conversion: how to enforce canonical name for "trunk"
... meanings in a single checkbox. In neither case does a new "commit" happen, just a control artifact generated that amends the name of the "branch". Perhaps better text would be: "Starting with this commit, rename ... (2023-05-10)Forum Post: authorizer blocks DML on table "sqlite_master" due to the request coming from a different origin
... is set up properly and i am able to login to the Unnamed Fossil Project with the generated admin password however, whenever i try to save a change (like enabling https-login) i see Bad ... (2023-05-06)Forum Reply: issue: ssh -T does not close after sync operation (v. 2.15)
... that happening on my system (OpenBSD) using Fossil [99b09b9476] so it doesn't appear to be a generic problem. What state are the processes in? On Linux can you strace the SSH process? Thanks, Andy (2023-05-05)Forum Post: Way more code when loading up a single post, than the post itself
... network tab. When I did, on a page that says in its footer it took 4ms to generate, actually took around 300ms to fully reach the browser, is just under 11.6kB when gzip compressed ... (2023-05-03)Forum Edit reply: Can I invoke 'fossil' in a CGI set up as a bash script?
... bash /path/to/fossil /path/to/norm The host might not be setting or passing $PATH. For general troubleshooting of paths and chroot, modify your original CGI script to run arbitrary commands. #!/bin/bash echo ... (2023-04-28)Forum Edit reply: Can I invoke 'fossil' in a CGI set up as a bash script?
... sh /path/to/fossil /path/to/norm The host might not be setting or passing $PATH. For general troubleshooting of paths and chroot, modify your original CGI script to show you the contents of your ... (2023-04-28)Forum Post: Trouble getting `make test` to pass
... I've also checked out release-2.21 and see 61 failures there. So either make test generally doesn't pass, or it doesn't pass on my machine - I'm just not sure which ... (2023-04-20)Forum Reply: Compilation error with "\#"
... AND the fix ;-) Yeah, I'm under the impression that it's necessary to manually delete the generated page_index.h file to have it pick up command help changes. On the one hand, I haven ... (2023-04-20)Forum Reply: Attachment (screen shot picture) as attachment to a commit
... option does not exist yet. And seems unlikely to be added. What would, however, perhaps be both generically useful and move you a step forward in your desired direction is new --branch-wiki FILENAME and ... (2023-04-17)Forum Reply: Seeking feedback on difficulty / suitability of my Fossil wishlist
... is no external tool which can do that for you, while there are hundreds of full-featured generic file managers. Fossil already recognizes (wonderfully, I might add) that previewing the checkout content is useful to ... (2023-04-17)Forum Reply: Seeking feedback on difficulty / suitability of my Fossil wishlist
... for any new parser-side functionality: ❌ ✅☑✔ i think it's fair to say that we general don't want to extend markdown beyond what's absolutely needed for fossil-specific functionality, e.g ... (2023-04-16)Forum Reply: Issue with markdown for project documentation
... and recommendations that didn't actually work, I propose a "challenge": Please provide the code that would generate this output, AND also paste the suggested code in the same forum message to demonstrate that it ... (2023-04-07)Forum Edit: Warning: /dev/null and /dev/urandom not available
... writing. WARNING: Device ?/dev/urandom? is not available for reading. This means that the pseudo-random number generator used by SQLite will be poorly seeded. I'm using an Alpine image with no explicit user ... (2023-03-27)Forum Edit reply: RFC: Shell environment inside the container?
... impossibility of that open-ended request, containers are not about serving infinite possibilities from a single image generated by a single Dockerfile. They're exactly the opposite: limiting the scope of operations to some practical ... (2023-03-26)Forum Edit reply: RFC: Shell environment inside the container?
... impossibility of that open-ended request, containers are not about serving infinite possibilities from a single image generated by a single Dockerfile. They're exactly the opposite: limiting the scope of operations to some practical ... (2023-03-26)Forum Reply: RFC: Shell environment inside the container?
... impossibility of that open-ended request, containers are not about serving infinite possibilities from a single image generated by a single Dockerfile. They're exactly the opposite: limiting the scope of operations to some practical ... (2023-03-26)Forum Edit reply: Warning: /dev/null and /dev/urandom not available [DISREGARD]
... cleanest alternative I found in my survey above was Alibaba's method: they have a command that generates a temporary Linux VM on demand that's attached to your rented section of their cloud, which ... (2023-03-24)Forum Edit reply: Warning: /dev/null and /dev/urandom not available [DISREGARD]
... cleanest alternative I found in my survey above was Alibaba's method: they have a command that generates a temporary Linux VM on demand that's attached to your rented section of their cloud, which ... (2023-03-24)Forum Edit reply: Warning: /dev/null and /dev/urandom not available [DISREGARD]
... cleanest alternative I found in my survey above was Alibaba's method: they have a command that generates a temporary Linux VM on demand that's attached to your rented section of their cloud, which ... (2023-03-24)Forum Reply: Warning: /dev/null and /dev/urandom not available [DISREGARD]
... cleanest alternative I found in my survey above was Alibaba's method: they have a command that generates a temporary Linux VM on demand that's attached to your rented section of their cloud, which ... (2023-03-24)Forum Reply: Warning: /dev/null and /dev/urandom not available [DISREGARD]
... I don't want to rock the boat or piss anyone off. 😅 In what world is generating containers from source acceptable, but configuring the source tree first unacceptable? It's not "unacceptable", it's ... (2023-03-23)Forum Reply: Warning: /dev/null and /dev/urandom not available [DISREGARD]
... you getting your way on this, would you please explain something to me? In what world is generating containers from source acceptable, but configuring the source tree first unacceptable? Serious question. I want to understand ... (2023-03-23)Forum Edit: Warning: /dev/null and /dev/urandom not available [DISREGARD]
... writing. WARNING: Device ?/dev/urandom? is not available for reading. This means that the pseudo-random number generator used by SQLite will be poorly seeded. I'm using an Alpine image with no explicit user ... (2023-03-23)Forum Post: Warning: /dev/null and /dev/urandom not available
... writing. WARNING: Device ?/dev/urandom? is not available for reading. This means that the pseudo-random number generator used by SQLite will be poorly seeded. I'm using an Alpine image with no explicit user ... (2023-03-23)Forum Reply: Suggestion: Duplicate original Message-ID for edit email notifications
... renamed) the previous Obsoletes through RFC 2156 (Jan 1998), so one would expect those two to be treated similarly by MUAs. Perhaps that "not for general use" offers an explanation on the said behavior thereof. (2023-03-21)Forum Reply: Suggestion: Duplicate original Message-ID for edit email notifications
... dup Message-ID:. If I wasn't anonymous I would edit the title of the original posting (generating another email... :-) to the following request: Suggestion: Add a References: header to email notifications I'm not ... (2023-03-21)Forum Edit reply: Images in Wiki
... also intrusive and unkind to those reading via email. Regular URLs may not be beautiful, but they generally don't take more than part of a single line of text, and are thus less inherently ... (2023-03-19)Forum Reply: How to merge branches that independently created the same file?
... It's an attempt to improve behaviour of this particular case by letting the merge logic to generate merge conflict marks inside the file, showing both versions + the common-ancestor version (which is empty in ... (2023-03-16)Forum Post: "uv cat" and "uv export" generate different output
?uv cat? and ?uv export? generate different output From veedeehjay: I do have an unversioned pdf file in my repo: fossil uv export myfile.pdf export.pdf correctly extracts the file from the repo but ... (2023-03-12)Forum Reply: encoding question
From veedeehjay: I was concerned with general (non-man) troff input (not using the "man" macros but the "ms" macros in my case). but anyway: if those manpages you refer to are in fact in ... (2023-03-08)Forum Reply: CVE-2022-34009
... giving Defender a crack to snaffle files away from Fossil. It must be in the lower-level generic parts of the code. Doesn't the CGI implementation on Windows do something like this as a ... (2023-03-07)Forum Reply: encoding question
From veedeehjay: groff sure can generate utf8 text output for tty devices. the issue at hand is the input encoding of the troff source file, see here. so managing (say) manpage source files with fossil ... (2023-03-07)Forum Reply: 3rd party code?
... t be treated by any of my preferred options above. Without that, we can only give you generalities. can these be somehow marked as "immutable" Fossil has no such feature. One alternative is to put ... (2023-03-05)Forum Reply: Feature request: Ability to Fork a reply to a separate thread
From stephan: (just place an automatically generated post at the beginning of new thread and at the place of fork in the old thread) Placing a link at the point of the fork hadn't ... (2023-03-03)Forum Reply: Newbie running Fossil via CGI: Where will Fossil put the configuration database file on a shared hosting platform?
From wyoung: You need to ./configure the local Fossil tree first. Without that step, *.in files don't get transformed to their generated forms; containers/os-release is one of these. (2023-03-03)Forum Reply: Feature request: Ability to Fork a reply to a separate thread
... place before implementing the thread-splitting. My original idea was much more shallow (just place an automatically generated post at the beginning of new thread and at the place of fork in the old thread ... (2023-03-03)Forum Reply: Feature request: Ability to Fork a reply to a separate thread
... g.: forum post X links to check-in Y ticket X links to forum post Y more generally: artifact X links to/references artifact Y We have the infrastructure to be able to do this ... (2023-03-03)Forum Edit reply: Automatic linking to forum posts in markdown
From ravbc: Hmm, generated link is different, so maybe that's the source of differences. And maybe it just works as expected. ;-) (2023-03-03)Forum Reply: Automatic linking to forum posts in markdown
From ravbc: Hmm, generated link is different, so maybe that's the source of differences. (2023-03-03)Forum Reply: Mail delivery broken? No emails since 2.21 was announced 6 days ago
... newer Fossil Forum posts that never reached my GMail inbox. Gmail is intermittently fussy about accepting fossil-generated mails. i have all notifications sent to 2 addresses explicitly to keep an eye out for such ... (2023-03-03)Forum Reply: A suggestion on design
... the docs too, but I either didn't see that bit or saw and didn't absorb. Generous of you to say it again, and also for spending probably 3:1 ratio of time spent ... (2023-02-27)Forum Reply: Determine if trunk updated
... I'm not trying to solve a specific yet vaguely-specified problem here, I'm giving a general solution: That wasn't my intent, but to advise the OP of the unstated assumptions to preempt ... (2023-02-23)Forum Reply: Determine if trunk updated
... I'm not trying to solve a specific yet vaguely-specified problem here, I'm giving a general solution: That wasn't my intent, but to advise the OP of the unstated assumptions to preempt ... (2023-02-23)Forum Edit reply: Determine if trunk updated
... I'm not trying to solve a specific yet vaguely-specified problem here, I'm giving a general solution: use the changes command instead of comparing human-readable output of commands against fixed strings. That ... (2023-02-22)Forum Reply: Determine if trunk updated
... I'm not trying to solve a specific yet vaguely-specified problem here, I'm giving a general solution: use the changes command instead of comparing human-readable output of commands against fixed strings. That ... (2023-02-22)Forum Reply: Password hashing still uses SHA-1
From rhcarvalho: Apologies for reviving this old thread. I'm no security expert myself, but generally curious about the topic. I would like to share something I found educative, while standing neutral about any changes ... (2023-02-19)Forum Post: RFC: substitution parameter for named lists of files and globs
... config file or inside the vvar table of the checkout file; all would be good. In more generalized form -s could be used for any command line parameter substitutions; an alias for a common set ... (2023-02-17)Forum Reply: Changning mainbranch name
... knowing even at the newbie level. Considerably more advanced is the Fossil file format doc, which you generally do not need to understand until you're doing something clever…like renaming your entire main branch. :) We ... (2023-02-15)Forum Reply: Using fossil as sqlite database for notes & knowledge management
... was talking about my own project which already generates asciidoctor. I also use asciidoctor in fossil separately, saved as .adoc and generate it locally as HTML. Generating books out of asciidoctor is a breeze, you ... (2023-02-14)Forum Edit reply: A suggestion on design
... js. What did that buy us? Don't prescribe; persuade. scripting language u or users want to generate a preprocessed HTML Writing in standard English would be more persuasive. That aside, are you aware of ... (2023-02-13)Forum Reply: A suggestion on design
... js. What did that buy us? Don't prescribe; persuade. scripting language u or users want to generate a preprocessed HTML Writing in standard English would be more persuasive. That aside, are you aware of ... (2023-02-13)Forum Post: A suggestion on design
... in c fossil) actually can be achieved by using and scripting language u or users want to generate a preprocessed HTML and use javascript to fetch some content to allow mandatory control on the flexibility ... (2023-02-13)Forum Edit reply: Automatic TOC, paragraph numbering, and header IDs
... I'd like to try to integrate it within fossil. Right now I'm writing asciidoctor and generating HTML locally. It would be super nice to allow fossil to make use of asciidoctor.js to ... (2023-02-12)Forum Edit reply: Automatic TOC, paragraph numbering, and header IDs
... I'd like to try to integrate it within fossil. Right now I'm writing asciidoctor and generating HTML locally, allow fossil to make use of asciidoctor.js to render .adoc files in previews, wiki ... (2023-02-12)Forum Reply: a _fossil markdown_ command
From stephan: fossil pikchr -- generate the SVG from a file's code blocks. Fossil has a pikchr command but it reads pikchr input, not arbitrary text. fossil markdown -- generate the HTML from a file. This ... (2023-02-05)Forum Post: a _fossil markdown_ command
... for someone developing documentation that's checked into the source tree: fossil markdown -- generate the HTML from a file. fossil pikchr -- generate the SVG from a file's code blocks. I ended up downloading pikchr ... (2023-02-05)Forum Reply: Docker image fails with "ERROR [builder 7/9] COPY containers/os-release /etc/os-release"
... t very knowledgeable about the process for the creation of containers/os-release. Now it seems that generating this manually is the simplest option for me and I'll go for that. It satisfies my ... (2023-02-02)Forum Reply: Docker image fails with "ERROR [builder 7/9] COPY containers/os-release /etc/os-release"
From wyoung: Lemme guess: you’re on Windows. That file is now generated at configure time to get around the prior method's limitation of requiring BuildKit, which precludes Podman entirely at the moment, and on ... (2023-02-02)Forum Post: Adding MathJax to wiki
... this, or perhaps to use a CGI extension to do the conversion from markdown to html? More generally, I couldn't find anything about math support in the documentation. This is critical for those of ... (2023-02-01)Forum Reply: Did anyone integrate mermaid into fossil ?
... properties (compared to alternatives). It also has an online editor with a feature of being able to generate an URL out of your diagram which encodes the diagram's source, so you can just share ... (2023-01-26)Forum Edit: Fossil for personal CMS
Fossil for personal CMS From joeld: I'm [ab]using Fossil a general-purpose CMS for a personal website (https://joeldueck.com) and it’s working out pretty well. Especially with the new file/wiki editor ... (2023-01-25)Forum Reply: RFE/RFC: Settings in JSON format
... message including all the same line numbers Please try a clean rebuild. It's possible that the generated headers aren't getting updated for that type of change. My compilers don't complain about it ... (2023-01-25)Forum Reply: I got a sync problem - how can I proceed
... The output from touch/rm/mount all look good, but any use on a networked filesystem is generally ill-advised. It will "usually" work, in particular if the repo is only used from one client ... (2023-01-24)Forum Reply: RFC: Omit specific ticket events from the default timeline view
... post: IMO, this feature may open the way for the use of ticketing subsystem as a more general-purpose distributed key-value store which is usable from within a browser (think of distributed polls, artifacts ... (2023-01-22)Forum Reply: Merging binary files... ***** Cannot merge binary file
... commit my version (the flip side of the problem)? Unlike line-based text documents, there are no generic algorithms for merging binary files. The only options are to throw away the most recent changes altogether ... (2023-01-20)Forum Reply: Wiki on server returning “write permissions required” to system user
... but they can be configured not to. Doing so makes certain security checks impossible and fossil will generally not accept POST requests without that. Also, if you would, please try making an edit via the ... (2023-01-19)Forum Edit reply: Docker parse error at Dockerfile line 44
... rights at build time. As for the rest of your issue, I've reworked the way we generate /etc/os-release in the container to avoid use of heredocs, so that it will once again ... (2023-01-17)Forum Reply: Docker parse error at Dockerfile line 44
... rights at build time. As for the rest of your issue, I've reworked the way we generate /etc/os-release in the container to avoid use of heredocs, so that it will once again ... (2023-01-17)Forum Reply: ignoring other vcs sub-trees?
... massive tools. A glob, on the other hand, still has a performance hit for such a massive tree but it doesn't have an I/O hit (I/O being the slowest component, generally speaking). (2023-01-12)Forum Reply: ignoring other vcs sub-trees?
... projects, yes you could add a dozen or so ignore-glob entries, or you could make it generic that it always does the right thing. E.g., is a HDL project that has some source ... (2023-01-12)Forum Edit reply: ignoring other vcs sub-trees?
... be less work than updating for each SQLite version). But ... It might be possible to make this generic, that is ... being able to specify a pattern that excludes the content as well, e.g., if ... (2023-01-12)Forum Reply: ignoring other vcs sub-trees?
... be less work than updating for each SQLite version). But ... It might be possible to make this generic, that is ... being able to specify a pattern that excludes the content as well, e.g., if ... (2023-01-12)Forum Reply: Add fsl to relatedwork.md under Fossil Inspired Projects
... just works for me :). as long as fossil's native behaviour does not change regarding command names and generated terminal output, fsl should continue to work. it definitely is functional and useful I'd say. (2023-01-09)Forum Reply: filesystem versus database, least interaction
... posed by /fileedit, which as far as I'm aware, is as strong security-wise as Fossil generally: its RBAC, its SQL verifier, the new DB read-only locking feature… That in turn is all ... (2023-01-08)Forum Reply: filesystem versus database, least interaction
... posed by /fileedit, which as far as I'm aware, is as strong security-wise as Fossil generally: its RBAC, its SQL verifier, the new DB read-only locking feature… That in turn is all ... (2023-01-08)Forum Reply: Wiki diff in CLI?
... repository, as I like to read the changes in my email client. FWIW, diffs for wiki are generally not terribly useful because each full paragraph of wiki is (when they're edited via the web ... (2023-01-07)Forum Edit: devnull and urandom not available errors in freebsd hosted server
... writing. WARNING: Device "/dev/urandom" is not available for reading. This means that the pseudo-random number generator used by SQLite will be poorly seeded. I apparently have both, but the fossil server may not ... (2023-01-07)Forum Post: devnull and urandom not available errors in freebsd hosted server
... writing. WARNING: Device "/dev/urandom" is not available for reading. This means that the pseudo-random number generator used by SQLite will be poorly seeded. I apparently have both, but the fossil server may not ... (2023-01-07)Forum Post: errorlog
... found: homer but nothing appears in the log file. Does anything look wrong with my command, what kind of logging should I expect to see, and can I generate an error to see there? will (2023-01-07)Forum Edit reply: Different criteria for "binary" files in merge and in diff?
From stephan: Why is the logic different? Both diff and merge are line-oriented, making them generally unhelpful for files where lines are thousands of bytes long. Similarly, wiki page diff views are unhelpful when ... (2023-01-04)Forum Edit reply: Different criteria for "binary" files in merge and in diff?
From stephan: Why is the logic different? Both diff and merge are line-oriented, making them generally unhelpful for files where lines are thousands of bytes long. Similarly, wiki page diff views are unhelpful when ... (2023-01-04)Forum Reply: Different criteria for "binary" files in merge and in diff?
From stephan: Why is the logic different? Both diff and merge are line-oriented, making them generally unhelpful for files where lines are thousands of bytes long. Similarly, wiki page diff views are unhelpful when ... (2023-01-04)Forum Reply: Different criteria for "binary" files in merge and in diff?
... do it. It's just sickening to have text files with 14,000 character-long lines for no good reasons (apart from saving a few bytes, let's say 140) - are there any, generally speaking? (2023-01-04)Forum Reply: How to handle regularily changing images/binary files?
... don't have to be related to each other), there is no good algorithm for selecting when to do so, so it currently only generates deltas for blobs which are versions of the same file. (2023-01-04)Forum Edit reply: Different criteria for "binary" files in merge and in diff?
... wyoung: Is this a format you designed yourself, or one generated by a tool you cannot change? The second one. It's the lock file generated by poetry, and it would be a botter to ... (2023-01-04)Forum Edit reply: Different criteria for "binary" files in merge and in diff?
... richieadler: Is this a format you designed yourself, or one generated by a tool you cannot change? The second one. It's the lock file generated by poetry, and it would be a botter to ... (2023-01-04)Forum Reply: Different criteria for "binary" files in merge and in diff?
... richieadler: Is this a format you designed yourself, or one generated by a tool you cannot change? The second one. It's the lock file generated by poetry, and it would be a botter to ... (2023-01-04)Forum Reply: How does Fossil's excellent diff algorithm work?
... common subsequence and is well-studied in theoretical computer science (read: algorithmics); while NP-hard in the general case, polynomial solutions can be obtained by dynamic programming. The main goal is then to go from ... (2023-01-04)Forum Reply: How to handle regularily changing images/binary files?
... Me, I'd include the differencing between images as part of make activity and then throw away generated images for all but the most recent version and I would not include them in the repo. (2023-01-03)Forum Reply: Different criteria for "binary" files in merge and in diff?
... a list of dependency in a single line Is this a format you designed yourself, or one generated by a tool you cannot change? TOML has arrays, and it's perfectly legal to put newlines ... (2023-01-03)Forum Reply: How to handle regularily changing images/binary files?
From crustyoz: If the screenshots can be generated programmatically during the detection of unacceptable image content then there is no point to storing the screenshots anywhere. The detection issue is NOT a version control problem ... (2023-01-03)Forum Reply: How to handle regularily changing images/binary files?
... I agree with the general thrust of your argument, I've got to push back on this point. First off, committing data generated from files already in the repo is generally a bad idea. In ... (2023-01-03)Forum Post: How to handle regularily changing images/binary files?
... MB, coming from about 30 MB. Keeping this up will probably push it into the gigabytes. I generally like the workflow of committing the screenshots, but I don't like that I bloat my repository ... (2023-01-03)