Applications - Version Control - Fossil - Notes

See also fossil

Create new repository:

fossil init myrepo.fossil

You'll get output similar to:

project-id: /Long number/
server-id:  /Another long number/
admin-user: username (initial password is "123456")

Set up the server:

fossil server myrepo.fossil

You'll get output similar to:

Listening for HTTP requests on TCP port 8080
Type Ctrl-C to stop the HTTP server

Prepare the client.

1. Clone the server repository:

   fossil clone http://username:123456@host.domain.com:8080/ myclone.fossil

2. Open the cloned repository:

   fossil open myclone.fossil

3. Check in files, they should be immediately synced to the server by autosync.

To disable autosync:

fossil setting autosync off

To enable autosync

fossil setting autosync on

To check the current autosync setting:

fossil setting autosync

To set Notepad to be the default editor for commit messages (for use on Windows):

fossil setting editor notepad.exe

List users:

fossil user list -R file.fossil

List rights of user:

fossil user capabilities anonymous -R file.fossil

Remove rights for anonymous and nobody:

fossil user capabilities anonymous "" -R file.fossil
fossil user capabilities nobody "" -R fea.fossil

fossil user new username contact-info password

fossil user capabilities username bcfhgjmnoruvxz -R file.fossil

fossil user password username newpassword -R file.fossil

Extracts all revisions from a bazaar repository and commits each revision to a fossil repository.
Be warned: This script has received only very minimal testing so far.

Both bazaar and fossil executables should be in the %PATH%.

As this was for a bazaar repository with .cmd and .vbs files, the following option had to be set to prevent the fossil prompts about CR/LF at commit time:

fossil setting crnl-glob '*'

SET BZRREPODIR=I:\Scripts
SET BZRTMPDIR=C:\Dump\ScriptsTMP
SET FOSSILREPODIR=C:\Dump\Scripts2
SET TMPDIR=C:\Dump
SET STARTREV=1
IF "%1" NEQ "" SET STARTREV=%1
IF NOT EXIST "%TMPDIR%" MKDIR "%TMPDIR%"
CD /D "%BZRREPODIR%"
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%S IN ('bzr revno') DO ( 

	FOR /L %%D IN (%STARTREV%,1,%%S) DO (

		IF EXIST "%BZRTMPDIR%" RD /S /Q %BZRTMPDIR%
		MKDIR "%BZRTMPDIR%"
		CD /D "%BZRREPODIR%"
		bzr log -r%%D > "%TMPDIR%\r%%D.txt"
		bzr export -r %%D --per-file-timestamps "%BZRTMPDIR%"
		"%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\xcopy.exe" /EY "%BZRTMPDIR%" "%FOSSILREPODIR%"
		CD /D "%TMPDIR%"
		CD /D "%FOSSILREPODIR%"
		fossil add *
		fossil commit --message-file "%TMPDIR%\r%%D.txt"

	)

)
IF EXIST "%BZRTMPDIR%" RD /S /Q %BZRTMPDIR%
DEL /Q "%TMPDIR%\r*.txt"

See compileonwindowswithssl.