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Post: Can I change the userid of an entry in rcfrom?

Does this work or will it break anything? `update repository.rcvfrom SET uid = 2 where rcvid = 228;`

anonymous 1 month ago
Post: how to make images via unversioned files shown to anonymous / nobody?

nobody = j the other user types have no caps but somehow I can not see the uv files (for example an image) unless I am logged in as s(etup) user why is that? I only see a checkbox for "write uv" in…

anonymous 1 month ago
Post: Newlines disappearing from commit messages

Found a bug present in at least 2.23. Did several commits in test repo. First was like `fossil commit -m "Line 1\nline2\nline 3"` and it is shown exactly as typed, with all "\n"'s. Another commit wa…

nuclight 1 month, 1 week ago
Post: markdown: footnots work in wiki pages but not in technotes

In wiki pages, they are correctly rendered as footnotes, but in technotes it seems it links to `^1` as page name: ``` asd \[^1\] \[^1\]: www ``` hint: remove the \, because I do not know how to es…

anonymous 1 month, 1 week ago
Post: p-parameter at /wcontent per wiki-page link

Why is there a &p without any value at each link but not when I use the search? Does the p-parameter nothing or for what is that?

anonymous 1 month, 1 week ago
Post: Values of $current_page in th1 for standard pages

I want to put Javascript in the footer of some pages: home page, wiki pages, forum posts, in pages for previewing entered text, but not everywhere. I have something like: <th1> set cp3 [string ran…

hruodr 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Post: username change leads to broken password

scenario: * fossil running on webserver (no local auth) * logged in as user * going to admin - users * changing my own username * save * login windows shows up * old password not working anymore Ev…

anonymous 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Post: fossil + MathJax
hruodr 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Post: Not receiving daily digest of forum posts anymore

Hey, while not all to active responding, I have been following the forum as a reade a lot, using the daily digest mails to stay up-to-date. Since a few months now I am not receiving it anymore. I ha…

marvin 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Post: Minimum glibc for the Linux x86 binary download

The Linux binary download is nice to have when testing and introducing Fossil on shared web hosting. The current 2.26 and 2.27 support a older version of glibc, while the snaphot (2026-01-28) seems …

aslakr 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Post: Inconsistent Setup/Admin Chat capability inheritance

I was just browsing the capabilities code and noticed that the Setup User/Admin group inherit **chat(C)** capability in [login_set_capabilities()](https://fossil-scm.org/home/file?ci=trunk&name=src%2…

jerryko 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Post: TIL: Go embeds Fossil version info into binaries

The new `fossil whatis -h` flag is most welcome and will doubtless replace many local hand-rolled alternatives. However, if you're using Go, you don't need to call `fossil` manually at all. Given thi…

wyoung 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Post: Timeline mouse usage to compare 2 files out of any 1 or 2 check-in/s

**My use case:** In many of my check-ins on many of different (but similar) branches I use the same filename (or a different one). I use the timeline and check the box "Files", so I can identify th…

RoboManni 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Post: Wiki Page names beyond ASCII

Wiki Page names beyond ASCII are possible (no error checks), but the pages cannot be opened or edited later. I came across this problem when I tried to create a page with an 'ä' in the name.

holgerj 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Post: Adding project documentation

I have installed Fossil. Did the quick start. I want to use Fossil for my project documentation using the Docs (embedded docs) option and internal forum for notes. I am struggling to add docs to t…

Peter23 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Post: Why does New Ticket->Preview change priority, but Edit Ticket->Preview does not?

I noticed that while creating new tickets, when I change the priority from the default and press "Preview" the priority is changed back to the default. However, if I am editing an existing ticket, c…

yendor 2 months ago
Post: Struggling to get robo-downloads working

The problem: despite my best efforts, CLI-based downloads are failing from repos ostensibly configured to allow it: > ``` $ curl 'https://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/r/libfossil/tarball/x.tar.gz?name=…

stephan 2 months ago
Post: timeline command verbosity

Hi again, I am not sure if I missed it, but is it possible to limit the output of `fossil timeline` to an absolut minimum? I just want to get the last commit hash and the working tree status and tr…

smartmic 2 months ago
Post: Quick integrity check failing in repositories with FTS4 search index

I recently updated my backup script to perform an integrity check (with `fossil test-integrity --quick`) on the repository backups I made, which failed for several of them with this message: ``` SQL…

vor0nwe 2 months, 1 week ago
Post: New Snapshot Build

There is a new snapshot build of the latest trunk version of Fossil available on the [Download Page](https://fossil-scm.org/home/uv/download.html). If you do not already stay up to date with the lat…

drh 2 months, 1 week ago
Post: Linking to tickets/commits

How does one link to a ticket in a commit, or link a commit in a ticket? I, naively, just inserted their hashes within square brackets and assumed that would be sufficient, but the timeline/ticket v…

jan 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Post: Timeline view restricted to a particular file

Hi, I am wanting to inspect the evolution of a particular file, not at a line-by-line basis ala "Blame", but at a commit-by-commit basis ala "Timeline". I'm not seeing an obvious way to achieve thi…

anonymous 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Post: /urllist page errors out with a ssh-based git remote

In a few repositories that I have set up a [git export](/help/git) on, I have set the `--autopush` value to include a short ssh hostname for. Eg, in `~/.ssh/config` I have: Host gh HostName…

chungy 2 months, 3 weeks ago

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