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I am a new user who just signed up for an account. I was able to login from the email sent to me, but I am unable to login from a new tab. Apparently it does not recognize the password saved in my go…

In this example if we set the angle of the "heading" property between [82,98] or [262,278] then line are not correctly "chopped" and go inside the ellipse in the center. The bug also depends of the…

Hi all :) I added a commit that was aborted due to my computer losing power (I just did "fossil commit" again after reboot and it was as if the commit was never done, just like it should be), this…

I have a subversion repository that I am working on importing into Fossil. The original repository is simple, there are no branches, just a single line of development with a single user commiting in …

In Fossil version 2.28, when using the server command and opening it in a Chromium-based browser on the windows, the randomly generated 8-digit hexadecimal password is displayed as garbled text. It h…

I was experimenting with combinatorial branching in Fossil (ie, having x branches forking into x other branches and merging into eachother), using a script to mass generate these repository events. …

Greetings, I just created a new account on Chisel and tried to create a repository there. I tried a few different options for the 'Repository name' and 'Password' (including no password), creating…

A long-awaited moment has been reached in (lib)fossil's history: thanks to the herculean efforts of (in order of first name) Dan Shearer and Dan Mestas, the library is, [as of a few moments ago](http…

*The following message was received in private email to DRH and is reposted here:* I wanted to ask something in the forum, but was impossible. I see that there are now tabs like in the wiki. I …

Small CSS-only feature that helps when scrolling through a long diff, and one forgets which file is looked at. - Both bright/dark mode CSS added. - Slight transparency in filename background, to kn…

Hello forum, I stumbled upon a quirky behavior involving adding propagating tags to existing check-ins: I have renamed a feature branch, and the new branch name appeared as an additional tag in…

I tried modifying the admin/settings/ticket to add a field to track what release the problem with fixed in, but I gave up after an hour because I couldn't find all the places changes needed to be mad…

There are often times when I need to get the SHA of a version from the UI timeline (merge, diff, ...) but it's very difficult copy it. The problem is that it's a link and if you get anywhere near it …

When I run `fossil status` or `fossil changes` I get the status executable for most files. I expected something like edited, unknown, etc.. I'm using Fossil 2.28 [52445a27f1] 2026-03-11 11:31:46 UTC,…

I am aware there are some forum updates going on and it was mentioned the team wasn’t happy with how ticket is working? But I am wondering, is adding forum to the ticket as a field or the same assoc…

Just a heads up, I looked for a way to split commits at the hunk level under Windows, without needing to create patches, and after some effort I managed to compile fnc. I had to do it under Cygwin …

G'day, The new forum system is great and some of my team members have requested extending it in various ways. Noting that we will do the work, and that some of these may be overkill I would like…

The captcha is too large for a smaller viewport. Is there any reason not to size it dynamically? I've had decent results setting `pre.captcha{ font-size: 1.1vw; }` in `default.css`. Media queries cou…

SQLite WAL mode is not enabled by default. Is WAL mode safe and stable to use in Fossil? I know there are additional steps to manage the WAL journaling file when the repository database is moved, but…

Fossil CGI extensions never receive the `FOSSIL_CAPABILITIES` for "nobody" because `fullcap()` always adds "anonymous" caps. <https://fossil-scm.org/home/info?name=ba1285ef63&ln=269-271>

In the [Wiki in Fossil article][1] (emphasis added): > Each wiki page has its own revision history which is independent of the sequence of **check-ins (check-ins)**. Apparently the result of a…

Hi, I've posted here before and the community have been really helpful, so I'm back again. How does Fossil do its bisect? I can't understand it from reading the code and I want to implement som…

On the [forum of the Tcl tips fossil repository](https://core.tcl-lang.org/tips/forum), clicking the "New Thread" link produces a page that is blank aside from the title and menu bar. This has worked…

Hi, I download the repolist page from a script to easily clone and sync all my repositories from unprivileged places. Can the robot defense be disabled? I see `robot-exception` and `robot-restrict…

The Tcl core machine (core.tcl-lang.org) is running fossil version 2.29 [859458555b]. Now tickets with plain text descriptions and comments show <verbatim-... links> tags. The TH1 code for the ticket…