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Post: `fossil ls --age` takes ~30 s on Fossil's own repository since an SQLite update (foci scanned in the inner loop)

On a clone of Fossil's own repository, `fossil ls --age -v -r trunk` takes 0.04 s with 2.26 and 31.6 s with 2.28 and current trunk: ``` $ time fossil ls --age -v -R fossil.fossil -r trunk > /dev…

serhiy.storchaka 5 days, 18 hours ago
Post: `fossil sql -R` lost the search functions (search_init, title, body…) since SQLite 3.51 was brought in

In 2.28 and current trunk (2d6bfabc9e), `fossil sql -R REPO` no longer has `search_init`, `search_match`, `search_score`, `search_snippet`, `stext`, `title`, `body`, `urlencode` or `wiki_to_text`. …

serhiy.storchaka 5 days, 19 hours ago
Post: wiki create --technote takes ~18 s on a large repository (cross join in wiki_technote_to_rid)

Creating a new technote runs the fallback query in wiki_technote_to_rid() (src/wiki.c), which has FROM event e, tag t, tagxref tx with t and tx unused, and an unparenthesized OR. On the Tk repository…

serhiy.storchaka 5 days, 21 hours ago
Post: Fossil Dockerfile works with Windows wslc

Just a report that the stock Dockerfile builds and runs without issue using the just released Windows Subsystem for Linux Container engine (wslc). Just swap `wslc` for `docker` in the instructions.

ckennedy 1 week, 3 days ago
Post: Status of wapp.tcl.tk

Hello, is the "wapp" project (wapp.tcl.tk) still ongoing? For the past couple of weeks I have not been able to reach https://wapp.tcl.tk.

anonymous 1 week, 6 days ago
Post: bundle import leaves a file as a phantom when its delta basis is already in the repository

### Problem `fossil bundle import` can end with exit code 0 and still leave a file of an imported check-in as a phantom. This happens when the bundle contains an artifact that the receiving reposi…

ryo_horii 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Post: Suggestion: check only the named files in `fossil commit FILE...`

### Problem When files are named on the command line, `fossil commit` still checks every file in the checkout, so a one-file commit gets slower as the checkout grows. ### Measurements One-fi…

ryo_horii 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Post: Suggestion: run before-commit hooks during --dry-run commits

Problem: before-commit hooks are not run during a `--dry-run` commit. ### Why I think this is a problem - It makes it hard to test before-commit hooks without making real commits. - It is not…

aminom 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Post: SQLITE_MISUSE warning

The newest Fossil Windows binaries print a SQLITE_MISUSE warning when invoking fossil without any argument. For example here is what the `fossil.exe` from the `fossil-w64-2.28.zip` download prints on…

anonymous 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Post: Cannot load imported SVN repo

Hello, I have dumped remote Subversion repo using svnrdump: ```bash svnrdump dump svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/sauerbraten/code/ -F sauerbraten.dump ``` After that I imported it: ```bash fo…

anonymous 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Post: Client certificate how to request

In <https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/ssl.wiki> it's talked about that a server should be configured to accept client certificates, how does one do that? is this possible with the fossil …

anonymous 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Post: Defaulting ticket wikis to Markdown

Back in 2.16 changelog: >The /wikiedit and /wikinew pages now default to markdown format. This covered the main wikis well. But I've been using ticket wikis a lot lately, and get bitten by them…

kalafut 3 weeks ago
Post: wiki links handling in Markdown not quite matching the docs

According to <https://fossil-scm.org/forum/md_rules>: >If URL begins with "http:", "https:', "ftp:' or "mailto:", it may optionally be written `<URL>` (format 4). Other URL formats include: > …

kalafut 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Post: CSRF Tokens with CGI REMOTE_USER

Hello again! I'm back with more questions about using Fossil behind CGI with `REMOTE_USER`. When trying to do certain interactions such as creating tickets, creating forum posts, etc, I'm getting …

TheCaiB 1 month, 1 week ago
Post: Markup glitch in timeline docs

On https://fossil-scm.org/home/help/timeline in section "Options:" for -F it appears that %%<br> %H are missing &lt;tt>...&lt;/tt> tags. Yours Sincerely, Anonymous Markup Proofreader

anonymous 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Post: I think I found a bug around ticket ids.

Hello, I have just noticed that whenever I close a ticket, ticket id (not the ticket hash) changes. I am not sure if it is the expected normal behavior but in my mind, a field name with "id" in it…

a-tunc 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Post: Big wins in fossil caching

I found some fixes that appear to give between 20% and 70% speedups for each of `fossil rebuild`, `fossil test-integrity` and `fossil export`, depending on command, workload and system size. If you'd…

danshearer 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Post: Nitpick on the CGI Wiki Page

Hello all, I know this is a tiny detail, but I found the diagram near the bottom of the [How CGI Works In Fossil](https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/tip/www/aboutcgi.wiki) page slightly confusing. …

TheCaiB 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Post: The Markdown interpreter ignores whitespace between link text and link label/destination

It seems the markdown interpreter is ignoring whitespaces between link text and link label or destination. This means you can't have another link or anything in a parenthesis following a [shortcut re…

dennis 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Post: RFC: "hashtag" support in the markdown parser

Good morning, all, [The markdown-tagrefs branch](src:/timeline?r=markdown-tagrefs) has been sitting around idle for about 2 years and it's now time to decide whether this is something worth mergin…

stephan 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Post: Ticket view "newest first" option quirks.

I think the "Show newest first" option on the ticket view page was introduced in response to a question from me, but I cannot find that discussion now. In any case, it has finally been deployed on th…

schelte 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Post: fossil server on a USE_SEE build never obtains the repo key (saved-key pointer check defeats the prompt)

This was found in an Claude Fable LLM session, but verified as a bug/security problem. I patched my version, but the error is in the fossil code. On Unix, `fossil server repo.efossil` on a USE_SEE…

wmacevoy 2 months ago
Post: Robot resist setting for CGI server?

I run fossil in CGI mode serving a directory and have a version of this running on my LAN server as well as another on a remote VPS. It would be nice if there was a way to disable robot checking via …

anonymous 2 months ago
Post: Is this a bug in the --branch option of "fossil diff"?

The "--branch NAME" option on the [fossil diff command](/help/diff) strives to show all the differences associated with that branch. But I think it is not doing that quite right. Consider [bran…

drh 2 months ago
Post: Configuring Repository Settings via CLI

Hello all, I'm working on a little project that hosts and manages a multitude of Fossil repos behind a webserver that handles authentication and authorization among providing other services using …

TheCaiB 2 months ago

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