Forum Reply: `--user` Option Not Documented in `pull` Command Help
... the page generation time was over 10 seconds, my browser became mostly unresponsive for 30 seconds to 1 minute. Ultimately it looked like an incredibly long page of every check in and their hash. So ... (2023-12-04)Forum Reply: Question on with-openssl and with-tcl order in auto.def
... They were used for the generated Makefile, though, so compiling fossil with -lssl would work. I have updated auto.def in the auto-def-compilation-flags branch. This works well on my macOS now as ... (2023-12-03)Forum Reply: Database error: attempt to write a readonly database:
... Is the directory that contains the Fossil repository writable by the CGI process? It needs to be in order for SQLite to generate a rollback journal for transaction control. If the directory containing the Fossil ... (2023-11-29)Forum Reply: Opening a remote fossil
... At that point, you can stand the new instance up in any of several ways, then log in over HTTP[S] with the generated login credentials printed by the init command. (2023-11-28)Forum Reply: Question on with-openssl and with-tcl order in auto.def
... Since this has gone unremarked on, I'll offer some generalities. Most of those lines (558+) haven't changed in a decade, and the newest change is from 7 years ago. Whether that means they ... (2023-11-28)Forum Edit: Ability to resume a failed clone
... It's probably not bug-free and could use some additional feedback and testing, and in fact, I just noticed that there is a bug in the generation of the admin-user password (now fixed ... (2023-11-24)Forum Post: Ability to resume a failed clone
... It's probably not bug-free and could use some additional feedback and testing, and in fact, I just noticed that there is a bug in the generation of the admin-user password (now fixed ... (2023-11-24)Forum Reply: Algorithm for the timeline graph
... There is no writing about the graph generator, other than comments in the code. The code in timeline.c just parses query parameters and figures out which graph to draw. The layout is computed by ... (2023-11-21)Forum Edit reply: Please add some command-line sanity - implementing git log -p
... Compare the SQL used to generate /finfo web output to that backing the timeline command. EDIT: The CLI version of finfo cannot currently do this rename back-tracing, and if it could, your use of ... (2023-11-18)Forum Edit reply: Please add some command-line sanity - implementing git log -p
... Compare the SQL used to generate finfo terminal output to that backing the timeline command. Fossil is not a reimplementation of Git but with all its subcommands and options pointlessly misspelled. (2023-11-18)Forum Edit reply: Please add some command-line sanity - implementing git log -p
... Compare the SQL used to generate finfo terminal output to that backing the timeline command. Fossil is not merely a reimplementation of Git with all its subcommands and options pointlessly misspelled. (2023-11-18)Forum Reply: Please add some command-line sanity - implementing git log -p
... Compare the SQL used to generate finfo terminal output to that backing the timeline command. Don't assume Fossil is merely Git with all its subcommands and options misspelled. (2023-11-18)Forum Reply: Test fixes for the next version 2.24
... Should I use different branches for these (as they are not inherently linked) or a general "test-improvements" branch as a mini-project (where I would initially add changes from small to large)? (2023-11-16)Forum Reply: Unresolved RID when using fossil open
... Even if this may be part of a solution, I think it's better to expand on why, in general terms, a Unresolved RID might occur - but leave the user to search for a solution ... (2023-11-16)Forum Reply: Unresolved RID when using fossil open
... So actually all the commands listed in my post don't work and generate the same error message. (2023-11-15)Forum Reply: Unresolved RID when using fossil open
From preben: What was the general flow before you encountered the problem? Did you do any backups of repositories that you restored, for instance? BTW, what version of fossil are you using? (2023-11-15)Forum Reply: Fossil UI diff is "longer than necessary"
... For the regular fossil xdiff the diff is generated by contextDiff(), which behaves differently from formatDiff() used by the other formats. For formatDiff(), each set of COPY/DELETE/INSERT triples to process is processed in ... (2023-11-14)Forum Reply: Are fossil hooks cloned?
... That would require any commands to work on the cloning host - which to me seem to require a fairly well controlled environment, which I would not expect in the generic case. (2023-11-09)Forum Reply: RFC: Warning policy for commits and merges
... So as not to generate missing artifact references on peer repositories without the private branch, the merge parent is not recorded when merging the private branch into a public branch, and the timeline shows no ... (2023-10-18)Forum Edit reply: Fossil Curious; Big Video Archive Project, can Fossil Do This? Or Two Fossils?
... That said, Fossil is not a general-purpose filesystem. The biggies are that it doesn't maintain file permissions, and its sole provision for declaring the existence of an empty directory is fairly weak. If ... (2023-10-12)Forum Post: Still periodically amazed I get access to this world-class version control system
... on Windows, Linux, or Raspberry Pi as a single binary in a directory of my choosing and that I can generally understand how to use this world-class version control system to do better work. (2023-10-11)Forum Reply: Remove deadname from repository
... optimism regarding the social change needed to avoid this specific kind of harassment is, I think, somewhat naïve, I did say I expect it to take generations, and you only have to look back over ... (2023-10-10)Forum Edit reply: Remove deadname from repository
... I don't need chapter-and-verse on real incidents, but distilling them to true yet generic stories we can learn from would be much more helpful in getting to actionable solutions. it is sometimes ... (2023-10-10)Forum Reply: Remove deadname from repository
... I don't need chapter-and-verse on real incidents, but distilling them to true yet generic stories we can learn from would be much more helpful in getting to actionable solutions. it is sometimes ... (2023-10-10)Forum Reply: freeing memory
... is this a recommended pattern for Sqlite apps in general? (2023-10-06)Forum Edit reply: Fossil Curious; Big Video Archive Project, can Fossil Do This? Or Two Fossils?
... That said, Fossil is not a general-purpose filesystem. The biggies are that it doesn't maintain file permissions, and its sole provision for declaring the existence of an empty directory is fairly weak. If ... (2023-10-03)Forum Reply: Fossil Curious; Big Video Archive Project, can Fossil Do This? Or Two Fossils?
... That said, Fossil is not a general-purpose filesystem. The biggies are that it doesn't maintain file permissions, and its sole provision for declaring the existence of an empty directory is fairly weak. If ... (2023-10-03)Forum Post: Fossil Curious; Big Video Archive Project, can Fossil Do This? Or Two Fossils?
... This would be a case where I could create one massive website database file of content, share it, and if somebody wanted to run the template-generating engine upon it, they could. However, maintaining a ... (2023-10-03)Forum Reply: Tip of trunk is now a release candidate
... But if some of them represent earlier-generated discrepancies, moving those most recent changes to a branch is just part of what is needed for a release. I hesitate to second guess Richard, but I ... (2023-10-02)Forum Reply: Is there an easy way to find branches a specific user checked in to?
... Would this be generally considered useful? IMO yes. It would help me locate some of my older stale or out-of-date branches. Related: any interest in getting a list of users that committed to ... (2023-09-28)Forum Post: Is there an easy way to find branches a specific user checked in to?
... Am I missing an easy way to get such information that already exists? Would this be generally considered useful? Related: any interest in getting a list of users that committed to a branch (which could ... (2023-09-28)Forum Reply: Missing hyperlinks in email body for the fossil forum
... by sending only HTML-format mails would irk me because, like Richard, my general preference is for plain-text mails. +1 More than a few times I've been asked about suspect HTML emails where ... (2023-09-26)Forum Reply: Missing hyperlinks in email body for the fossil forum
... Bypassing that (non-)issue by sending only HTML-format mails would irk me because, like Richard, my general preference is for plain-text mails. (2023-09-26)Forum Reply: plaintext password after import from Git repo
From anonymous: Is there some general advice to replace / hash them or protect the files? (2023-09-19)Forum Post: plaintext password after import from Git repo
... Is this by design? When I do "git fast-export --all fossil import --git new-repo.fossil" from https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/inout.wiki, the automatically generated password is stored in ... (2023-09-18)Forum Reply: Cross-compiled fossil.exe does not output stdout in Windows
... OUTPUT_HANDLE),L?STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE? }, { GetStdHandle(STD_ERROR_HANDLE), L?STD_ERROR_HANDLE? } }; hConsole = CreateFileA( ?CONOUT$?, GENERIC_WRITE, FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, NULL); for (i = 0; i < ARRAYSIZE ... (2023-09-18)Forum Reply: Feature request: generating highlighted source file view server-side
... it requires support from Fossil to use the third party command to first generate the HTML, instead of dumping the source file contents directly. Shelling out an external application from a fossil server (as opposed ... (2023-09-12)Forum Post: Feature request: generating highlighted source file view server-side
... But I'd prefer to minimize Javascript usage on the frontend and generate highlighted code on the server. Something like highlight can do this, but it requires support from Fossil to use the third party ... (2023-09-12)Forum Reply: Wiki search: page titles, case sensitivity
... It may be too much, but I felt this better separated the code in to first handling different mimetypes for the purpose of determining the title and converting to HTML, followed by generating the resulting ... (2023-09-12)Forum Edit reply: Git importing questions
... DVCSes fall apart when you try to treat them as a general-purpose distributed filesystem. The trick is, what to suggest instead? A purpose-engineered alternative like Syncthing? I'm so far out of this ... (2023-09-11)Forum Edit reply: Git importing questions
... DVCSes fall apart when you try to treat them as a general-purpose distributed filesystem. The trick is, what to suggest instead? A purpose-engineered alternative like Syncthing? I'm so far out of this ... (2023-09-11)Forum Reply: Git importing questions
... DVCSes fall apart when you try to treat them as a general-purpose distributed filesystem. The trick is, what to suggest instead? A purpose-engineered alternative like Syncthing? I'm so far out of this ... (2023-09-11)Forum Reply: Git importing questions
From richieadler: I think difficulties and the need to use Git for Windows are more or less generally implied in the relevant part of the "Fossil vs. Git" document. (2023-09-10)Forum Post: Typo in tar.c
... src/tar.c ================================================================== --- src/tar.c +++ src/tar.c @@ -607,11 +607,11 @@ ** ** If OUTPUTFILE is an empty string or ?/dev/null? then no tarball is ** actually generated. This feature can be used in combination ... (2023-09-10)Forum Reply: Command 'open --empty' succeeds but (nearly) every subsequent command fails
... src/name.c ================================================================== --- src/name.c +++ src/name.c @@ -398,10 +398,11 @@ ** the ticket-change or technote-change artifact, not the randomly generated ** hexadecimal identifier assigned to tickets and events. Those identifiers ** live in ... (2023-09-09)Forum Reply: Can the icons on the files name in UI be made hype-links too?
... The developers do and this web site is generally hosted on something very close to trunk. (2023-08-29)Forum Post: Missing /dev/null
... This means that the pseudo-random number generator used by SQLite will be poorly seeded. Is there an APT or configuration something to create the /dev/null and /dev/urandom? Not sure why those do ... (2023-08-28)Forum Reply: ui/files shows the same directory twice even though there is only one
... For your use case it will work, but in the general case case-insensitive /dir has unresolvable(?) edge case(s). (2023-08-28)Forum Reply: Can I squash commits?
... branches. "Commit early, commit often" in Fossil does make a noisy timeline, thus all that noise should generally stay in a branch. But it's still a noise, just for one developer... Git lets that ... (2023-08-23)Forum Post: Issues with fossil commands and help text
... I'm volunteering to do all the work and generate patches if someone will lead me by the hand to get me started. Here is the Usage file I generated using fossil version 2.22 ... (2023-08-12)Forum Reply: Attachments for forum posts?
... Is this possible? An anonymous poster just rightfully pointed out that data URLs "can" be used as attachments, but that post was rejected because (A) we generally dislike seeing large data URLs in the forum ... (2023-08-04)Forum Reply: Setting up fossil server on debian/nginx
... for a generic common server setup with debian and nginx. Is nginx a hard requirement? If not, i can offer some docs about how my own heavily-fossilized server is set up: https://fossil.wanderinghorse ... (2023-07-30)Forum Post: Setting up fossil server on debian/nginx
... for a generic common server setup with debian and nginx. (2023-07-30)Forum Post: Checkout Wiki as file or Generate a Markdown preview from file
Checkout Wiki as file or Generate a Markdown preview from file From nuclight: I'm trying to use Fossil for documentation, and initially made an .md file which gets rendered under doc/tip. But then ... (2023-07-17)Forum Reply: About Chinese search
From danield: Please try again with the latest trunk and report if the problem is solved and if the FTS search in general works as before/as wanted. (2023-07-13)Forum Post: importing from git: a couple of bugs
... If the trunk branch is not detected, perhaps fossil should abort rather than do an import that doesn't make sense. (Note that git is generally switching over to main as the standard trunk branch ... (2023-07-12)Forum Reply: About Chinese search
... However, in my case, I lack expertise in any FTS-related stuff, fossil internals and C programming in general ... As I read Warren's comment, (with a pretty good idea of what he meant to ... (2023-07-10)Forum Reply: About Chinese search
... However, in my case, I lack expertise in any FTS-related stuff, fossil internals and C programming in general, I only know that before 2.22 the FTS search was working fine on my repo ... (2023-07-10)Forum Reply: Could Fossil Forum be taught to present email digests as threads instead of as a temporal list?
... If we were to reuse the forum's hierarchical view, that HTML transformation would generate links and styling which would not work as-is in an email export. All links would need to be made ... (2023-07-03)Forum Post: Could Fossil Forum be taught to present email digests as threads instead of as a temporal list?
... need to understand for future work...i currently have a pdf open about why mmap is not generally preferable to a memory pool as a result of what i read this morning. So, to my ... (2023-07-03)Forum Reply: Segfault in 2.22 with ancient repository
... Reading symbols from ./fossil... [New LWP 100177] Core was generated by `./fossil open --workdir /var/tmp/test2 /var/tmp/test.fossil?. Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. Address not mapped to object. #0 0x00000000008315a8 ... (2023-07-02)Forum Edit reply: Can ticket UI settings be synchronized between repos?
... Does fossil config pull using the ticket area work for your use case? In general config is for transferring/distributing local state unlike regular sync/push/pull which is used for global state like wiki ... (2023-07-02)Forum Edit reply: Can ticket UI settings be synchronized between repos?
... Does fossil config pull using the ticket area work for your use case? In general config is for transferring local state distribution unlike regular sync/push/pull which is used for global state like wiki ... (2023-07-02)Forum Reply: Segfault in 2.22 with ancient repository
... Reading symbols from ./fossil... [New LWP 100177] Core was generated by `./fossil open --workdir /var/tmp/test2 /var/tmp/test.fossil?. Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. Address not mapped to object. #0 0x00000000008315a8 ... (2023-07-01)Forum Reply: Segfault in 2.22 with ancient repository
... fossil... (No debugging symbols found in fossil) Can you please pass the path of the freshly built Fossil binary—the same one that generated the dump —to gdb: gdb /path/to/compiled/fossil fossil.core (2023-07-01)Forum Reply: Segfault in 2.22 with ancient repository
... Reading symbols from fossil... (No debugging symbols found in fossil) [New LWP 101221] Core was generated by `/var/tmp/build/fossil-src-2.22/fossil open --verbose /var/tmp/test.fossil?. Program terminated with signal ... (2023-07-01)Forum Post: Segfault in 2.22 with ancient repository
... Reading symbols from fossil... (No debugging symbols found in fossil) [New LWP 102195] Core was generated by `/var/tmp/build/fossil-src-2.22/fossil open --verbose /var/tmp/test.fossil?. Program terminated with signal ... (2023-07-01)Forum Reply: Javascript on the Download page
... That nonce is a large random number, unique for each HTTP page generated by Fossil, so an attacker cannot guess the value, so the browser will ignore an attacker’s injected JavaScript. I'm actually ... (2023-06-29)Forum Post: Javascript on the Download page
... I am aware that it used javascript (also stored as a UV file) to parse a json representation of all the unversioned files to generate the build artifacts list to then populate the download page ... (2023-06-29)Forum Reply: make fossil status show file renamed state when also modified
... When we can keep it useful without breaking anyone's scripts, great, but we generally don't lose any sleep over changing it without notice when there's a compelling reason to do so. Further ... (2023-06-26)Forum Edit reply: make fossil status show file renamed state when also modified
... When we can keep it useful without breaking anyone's scripts, great, but we generally don't lose any sleep over changing it without notice when there's a compelling reason to do so. That ... (2023-06-26)Forum Reply: make fossil status show file renamed state when also modified
... When we can keep it useful without breaking anyone's scripts, great, but we generally don't lose any sleep over changing it notice when there's a compelling reason to do so. That said ... (2023-06-26)Forum Reply: Beginner Help: `backup`
... I think the general theme consistent in the answers from Stephan, Daniel, and James, is to use specific tools suited to distinct tasks; for example, creating versionable backups of source code and system configuration files ... (2023-06-22)Forum Reply: Beginner Help: `backup`
... My objections are centered around using scm in place of what we generally know of as full backups. (2023-06-21)Forum Reply: Beginner Help: `backup`
... I also generally only track plain text files, with limited exceptions. I am especially careful not to add large files, since that tends to result in storage space permanently taken up, even if you delete ... (2023-06-21)Forum Reply: Search in wiki attachments
... Is there a better way then to keep documentation? The approach we generally recommend is: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/embeddeddoc.wiki Another question: when I enable Admin -> Search on my repository ... (2023-06-13)Forum Edit reply: Timeline Diff of further down commit and export
... To generate a bundle, on the command line run: fossil bundle export changes.bundle -from c2b38f0 -to 619d514 Copy changes.bundle upstream and they can use: fossil bundle import BUNDLE ?--publish? Documented at https://fossil ... (2023-06-13)Forum Reply: Timeline Diff of further down commit and export
... To generate a bundle, on the command line run: fossil bundle export changes.bundle -from c2b38f0 -to 619d514 Copy changes.bundle upstream and they can use: fossil bundle import BUNDLE ?--publish? Documented at https://fossil ... (2023-06-13)Forum Reply: How to hide deleted threads in forum?
... Yes, that is what a repo owner who deletes a thread is generally trying to accomplish. i may well have misunderstood. It's been my experience that posters delete their own posts. When we, as ... (2023-06-12)Forum Reply: How to hide deleted threads in forum?
... Yes, that is what a repo owner who deletes a thread is generally trying to accomplish. Moderation actions do sometimes annoy the affected users, it’s true. (2023-06-12)Forum Reply: How to hide deleted threads in forum?
... No no, I don't mean the general repository timeline. I mean the forum timeline, the /forum page. I'd like to not see the deleted threads still listed as "(Deleted)" there at all. Sorry ... (2023-06-12)Forum Edit reply: How to hide deleted threads in forum?
... Richard recently added a feature to generate the list of hashes: when viewing a thread, administrators (only?) will see an "Artifacts" link at the top of the page which will list them in a format ... (2023-06-11)Forum Edit reply: How to hide deleted threads in forum?
... Richard recently added a feature to generate the list of hashes: when viewing a thread, administrators (only?) will see an "Artifacts" link at the top of the page which will list them in a format ... (2023-06-11)Forum Reply: How to hide deleted threads in forum?
... Richard recently added a feature to generate the list of hashes: when viewing a thread, superusers will see an "Artifacts" link at the top of the page which will list them in a format suitable ... (2023-06-11)Forum Reply: When should I use fossil open and fossil close?
... I think the general idea was someone was committing files to a thumb drive and issued a fossil close before removing/ejecting the thumb drive. If multiple people are using the same repo, it would ... (2023-06-08)Forum Reply: Setup needed to move local "remote" repository to a server
... attempt to 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 ... (2023-06-04)Forum Post: fts5 search for term containing colon
... Reason 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 ... (2023-05-28)Forum Post: Bug in empty-dirs setting
... Test Folder/My Subfolder This will generate the following *three* top level folders: Test Folder Subfolder And inside "Folder" will be a folder named "My". It would be really, really great if this can be ... (2023-05-21)Forum Reply: RFE: A Personal Database System
... You are talking about building general Access-like functionality on top of Fossil, that non-developer skilled users can put to good use. I am talking about developers taking advantage of the SQLite implementation, and ... (2023-05-12)Forum Reply: How to see what's on a remote, and how to reset to one side of a fork?
... But, generally speaking, the remote and the local repo have all the same info, or nearly so. The default behavior is that every time you "commit" a new code change, that change is immediately and ... (2023-05-12)Forum Reply: Can I hide branches from Reader logged in users? Or have private internal data?
... But I'm imposing the constraint of not permitting clones, which is fine for the specific example I'm thinking of, but is probably too limiting for a general case. Why not just export the ... (2023-05-12)Forum Reply: RFE: A Personal Database System
... 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 results as SQL tables. My understanding is that Fossil ... (2023-05-12)Forum Reply: mercurial to fossil conversion: how to enforce canonical name for "trunk"
... 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 the branch to X" Though ... (2023-05-10)Forum Post: authorizer blocks DML on table "sqlite_master" due to the request coming from a different origin
... sub.domain.tld { reverse_proxy localhost:6969 } dns 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 ... (2023-05-06)Forum Reply: issue: ssh -T does not close after sync operation (v. 2.15)
... I don't see 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 ... (2023-05-05)Forum Post: Way more code when loading up a single post, than the post itself
... 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 (38.2kB ... (2023-05-03)Forum Edit reply: Can I invoke 'fossil' in a CGI set up as a bash script?
... For general troubleshooting of paths and chroot, modify your original CGI script to run arbitrary commands. #!/bin/bash echo -e ?Content-type: text/html\n\n`ls -l /`.? #!/bin/bash echo -e ?Content-type: text ... (2023-04-28)Forum Edit reply: Can I invoke 'fossil' in a CGI set up as a bash script?
... For general troubleshooting of paths and chroot, modify your original CGI script to show you the contents of your file system. #!/bin/bash echo -e ?Content-type: text/html\n\n`ls -l /`.? #!/bin/bash ... (2023-04-28)Forum Post: Trouble getting `make test` to pass
... So either make test generally doesn't pass, or it doesn't pass on my machine - I'm just not sure which it is. I've found the build docs but nothing about running tests ... (2023-04-20)Forum Reply: Compilation error with "\#"
... No worries, thanks for the decision 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 ... (2023-04-20)