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Post: make --shuffle=reverse

https://bugs.debian.org/1105310 reports a build failure with `make --shuffle=reverse`, this can be fixed by the judicious addition of a few more `mkdir -p` lines. ``` Index: tools/makemake.tcl =====…

barak_pearlmutter 1 month, 1 week ago
Post: commit to 2 remotes (autosync)

Hi, I'm trying to configure a repo with autosync from/to 2 local remotes. ```plain $ fossil remote ls Remote1 file:///dir1... Remote2 file:///dir2... default file:///dir1... ``` When I run `commit …

teodomiro 1 month, 1 week ago
Post: Default value for 'fossil update trunk'

Greetings. I believe some of us will be happier for a default value of 'y/Y' for these prompts: >accept this cert and continue (y/N/fingerprint)? an ENTER will be as if entering y/Y[ENTER] and >r…

jicman 1 month, 1 week ago
Post: Put Fossil server behind an existing captcha

This is my first post so I want to thank the team first for creating Fossil and SQLite and making these excellent one-of-a-kind tools freely available for all. I am attempting to set up a Fossil se…

sudofoss 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Post: Zed + Fossil = FZed

I have started a vibe-coded fork of [Zed](https://zed.dev) to add support for Fossil. Zed is a really nice IDE but it can’t be extended like VSCode, hence the fork. FZed can clone, open, view diffs,…

xpekeler 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Post: Strange duplicate email deliveries of different unrelated posts by same user

Apparently Fossil Forum delivered two messages that have identical content in the body but differing timestamps, Message-id, and what's even more strange, different forumpost identifiers. …

andybradford 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Post: Bug: check-in comment not saved if the commit fails

Scenario: 1. Run `fossil commit` 2. Type in a detailed check-in comment. 3. The check-in aborts because (for example) another developer checked in ahead of you. After you "`fossil …

drh 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Post: Longish sync wrongly gave time skew warning

I performed a **sync** operation with my local fork of fossil between desktop and home fossil server and saw this output: ```shell $ /usr/bin/fossil sync --once paranor Sync with http://paranor.inte…

jerryko 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Post: Fossil, Fuel, and a Dinosaur

Prompted by a question about committing from the Fossil UI: I started using Fossil in 2017, and one of the reasons I chose it was because it had a nice point and click style add-on called [Fuel](htt…

MelvaigT 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Post: Self-registration fails: This User ID is already taken

I received a complaint from a user that he got an error when trying to self-register his usual account name: "This User ID is already taken. Choose something different." However, looking at the exis…

schelte 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Post: how to fixed width-justify text in a post?

I'm looking for how to format a post so that the text is justified to a fixed width, like [this post]( https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/cc64dbea7e070c97) for instance.

anonymous 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Post: how to commit from the ui / webserver

I know I must be looking right at it but I cannot figure out how to do a commit from the ui/webserver. The drop down hamburger/Checkout Status shows that there are changes to files but I see no wher…

anonymous 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Post: Local cloned repo and backup have binary differences

Hi, I'm testing out migrating from git to fossil for some private projects and I'm experimenting with my backup workflows right now. Everything is self-hosted on my local network, with off-site backu…

anonymous 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Post: /setup_uedit page still mentions the Delete privilege

As of v. 2.28 the 'Notes On Privileges And Capabilities' text on the /setup_uedit page still has this: > The **Delete** privilege give the user the ability to erase wiki, tickets, and attachments t…

anonymous 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Post: Wiki: bug with umlauts (new page not created)

* go to /wikinew * enter some page name with ö * click "Create" What I would expect: * editor opens for new page (2026-05-15 15:59:20: You are editing a new, unsaved page: aaa) * upon Save & Close …

anonymous 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Post: duplicate header "History of ..." with default skin in wiki page history

* switch to "default" skin * go to https://fossil-scm.org/home/whistory?name=Apache+On+Windows+XP * see the duplicate header "History of ..." * switch to Etienne skin * go to https://fossil-scm.org/h…

anonymous 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Post: getting AI to generate sensible Pikchr

I've distilled this documentation to get AI to stop failing at Pikchr generation. The end of the document has specific prompts that may be more focused for particular issues. Maybe the official Fos…

ArchieT 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Post: Captcha illegible in Firefox on Android?

Someone reported that in Firefox on Android, the captcha is very hard to impossible to read. Is this a known problem, or did something change recently? ![](https://groups.io/g/ZTreeWin/attachment/49…

vor0nwe 2 months ago
Post: Self-registration email verification.

I'm trying to figure out how self-registration works. I have set up a repository with the following settings: ✅ Allow users to register themselves ✅ Email verification required for self-registrati…

schelte 2 months ago
Post: Listing tags on a specific artifact – plain vs raw

Consider this terminal session, taken from inside the sqlite repository (`⬥` is my shell prompt): ``` ⬥ fossil tag ls typos branch=typos typos ⬥ fossil tag ls --raw typos branch=typos sym-trunk sym-…

hanche 2 months ago
Post: Why does the repolist page open repos in a new tab?

I tracked it down to [e561cfd47e](https://fossil-scm.org/home/info/e561cfd47e) which just switch to `target='_blank'` without any rationale. I can't recall how web browsers were used at the time but…

436e58 2 months ago
Post: pathologically bad performance of fossil sync

I noticed that when I have a big repository with lots of updates that haven't been synced in a very long time, the performance of fossil sync is pathologically bad compared to just deleting the local…

eldwood 2 months, 1 week ago
Post: zsh autocompletion is broken in 2.28

There was a patch in November, which added the "-?" argument, but also put in a newline: https://fossil-scm.org/home/fdiff?v1=838a7f1b39e81ee0&v2=733bfcc6eb9bbb69 zsh expects, because of the newlin…

anonymous 2 months, 1 week ago
Post: Is there a permission (or tactic?) for this?

I had hoped, with the granularity of permissions that Fossil features, that it would be possible to set up a repo so that "anonymous" gets no access at all, but that "nobody" could "read"/see specifi…

dajare 2 months, 1 week ago
Post: Sharing patches within Fossil

Fossil of course has bundles and patches for sharing changes, but is there any better mechanism besides using textual patches or base64 encoding a binary patch into e.g. a forum post for sharing them…

anonymous 2 months, 1 week ago

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