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Fossil is a distributed version control system that includes source control management, bug-tracker, wiki, and forum in a single executable.

Fossil requires minimal configuration, is cross-platform, and includes a builtin web interface and server. The fossil web site pages are generated by an instance of Fossil itself.

Fossil is most notably used by the open-source software project SQLite, which was also created by Fossil's creator, D. Richard Hipp.

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  1. Download the latest version of Fossil available for your platform.
  2. Read the Fossil Concepts and Fossil Quick Start Guide, and begin experimenting with Fossil.

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Excluding certain directories from the ignore-glob

Is there a way to exclude certain directories from ignore-glob such that (e.g.) .dll files will generally be ignore except if they are in some specific directories?
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Setting up a Fossil server on Apache

I'm trying to set up a Fossil server on an externally hosted Apache server without much luck. I created the cgi script and placed it and the executable in the cgi folder. I don't have access to any directories before the www directory which is…
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Force use gcc to compile (instead of cc) in ./configure under Solaris Sparc

I want to build fossil code on Solaris. wget http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/tarball/tip.tar.xz tar xf tip.tar.xz ; cd tip.tar ./configure CC=gcc CXX=g++ C=gcc BCC=gcc # no error It will cause $make cc -o bld/translate…
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Download latest version of a file in Fossil repo?

I see that Fossil UI allows the downloading of files ("artifacts") at the url /raw/directory/filename?name=artifactID. Is there a way to always get the latest version of the file without knowing the artifactID? I have tried ?name=trunk,…
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Does fossil have an equivalent of cvs status?

If possible, I would like to get the fossil equivalent of CVS's notion of Working revision: =================================================================== File: tony Status: Locally Modified Working revision: 1.2 2022-08-24…
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Is there any way to change displayed username on fossil scm timeline

Some users were created with the wrong name and these users have been using the fossil for a long time. Is there any way to modify just the name that is displayed on the timeline? I know I can create a new user, but I would prefer to just change the…
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Serving Static Files with Fossil SCM

I am running a fossil scm through a local directory, so when I start fossil I access it at localhost:8080, and I am trying to load a static webpage through it such as localhost:8080/mypage.html. My fossil setup is running multiple repositories…
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Do fossil-scm has features like github labels

Labelling in github really a useful way to separate and track issues in clean and convenient manner, so is there something similar in fossil ?
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What is the workflow for using and backing up encrypted remote fossil repositories?

Fossil has support for encrypted repositories (https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/encryptedrepos.wiki) using the SQLite Encryption Extension. I have made a build of fossil using the open source SQLCipher SEE extension…
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Increasing storage space when converting from Fossil to Git to Git LFS

We are currently tracking Siemens PLC programs (TIA projects) in Fossil repos. Now we have to move all repos to Bitbucket and hence I started testing the conversion from Fossil to Git as Bitbucket only supports Git. One special thing about our…
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How can I change the background color of a cell in a wiki Fossil (fossil-scm)?

Statically set the color so:
Month Savings
January $100
But how can you dynamically change the background color…
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Can't push to fossil repo hosted on chiselapp

I have a fossil repository on chiselapp.com. I have used it for several years on a variety of machines. I have recently cloned the repo onto a new machine running Windows 10 and fossil 2.8 [f8d7f76bfd]. When I try to push changes to chiselapp, I get…
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Fossil crashing on commit with 'database is locked error'

I am looking for a Version Control tool for SQLite database. So on exploring I came to know about Fossil which is recommended by SQLite also. I am using latest version 2.7 for Windows and the problem I am facing is on using it in server mode and…
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R falsely identifying abundance data as presence/absence data (fossil package)

I am attempting to use the spp.est function of the package called "fossil" in RStudio. I have created a matrix called "akimiskibb" of abundance data with species as the columns and sites as the rows. When I try to use the function spp.est, I type…
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How to attach a file to a fossil ticket

The title just about says it all. I found a similar question on the fossil-users mailing list, and Richard Hipp responded here saying just to add the "b" capability for the user. As the user in question had "s", I thought this was unnecessary, but…
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