I'm trying fossil as my new VCS, since I'm a lone developer working on small projects. I started testing fossil but I encountered a (probably major newbie) problem. How does one push or pull to another directory (which is easy on Hg). Fossil pull or push commands expect a URL and not a directory. When I start a server in one directory and try to push from another directory I get the "server loop" error message. Any ideas?
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A:
According to this fossil ticket, cloning, pushing and pulling require a fossil server to be running. You can't just use the repo, you'll have to start a server, then refer to http://localhost/whatever and you should be golden.
- Run
fossil server
in the original repository - Go to the destination directory and run
fossil clone http://localhost
:8080 <repository name>
(or push or pull)
Josh Matthews
2009-08-30 13:51:37
Thanks for your reply. I tried it and I still get the following reply: "2fossil: server says: server loop".Any ideas?
Mosh
2009-08-31 10:07:27
Hurrah! It works.Just in case someone else stumbles on the same problem. Open "fossil server" in the original directory. Go to the destination directory and fossil clone (or push or pull) http://localhost:8080 <repository name> Seems rather obvious now, thanks again.
Mosh
2009-08-31 18:14:46
Notice that in the previous comment, Stackoverflow took the http address literally. Can someone with editing privileges fix this?
Mosh
2009-08-31 18:17:40
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A:
When I tried this, clone and pull worked just as expected WITHOUT running a fossil server.
Create a master repository
>mkdir master
>cd master
>fossil new master_repos.fsl
project-id: dbcb1863865d7d3ed74f873df6daf07c5853df5e
server-id: ea7a2e2496cc9c958cb7cc50bf48c0810b25a0a0
admin-user: james (initial password is "89ef88")
>fossil open master_repos.fsl
>echo "hello world" > a.a
>fossil add a.a
ADDED a.a
>fossil ci -m "add a.a"
New_Version: 80b67a84ff276e559328f373008ff3014a869170
Clone the master repository
>cd ..
>mkdir trial
>cd trial
>fossil clone ../master/master_repos.fsl trail_repos.fsl
Repository cloned into trail_repos.fsl
Rebuilding repository meta-data...
3 (100%)...
project-id: dbcb1863865d7d3ed74f873df6daf07c5853df5e
server-id: 24da0b614d1a1d6cd8ac5a86200390b47b87ee27
admin-user: james (password is "89ef88")
>fossil open trail_repos.fsl
a.a
project-name: <unnamed>
repository: C:/Documents and Settings/james/My Documents/code/test/trial/trail
_repos.fsl
local-root: C:/Documents and Settings/james/My Documents/code/test/trial/
project-code: dbcb1863865d7d3ed74f873df6daf07c5853df5e
server-code: 24da0b614d1a1d6cd8ac5a86200390b47b87ee27
checkout: 80b67a84ff276e559328f373008ff3014a869170 2009-11-12 15:19:51 UTC
parent: b04cc7533753a8a8a1f8a92b1be8b73cbc368660 2009-11-12 15:18:11 UTC
tags: trunk
>type a.a
"hello world"
Modify the master
>cd ../master
>echo "hello #2" > b.b
>fossil add b.b
ADDED b.b
>fossil ci -m "add b.b"
New_Version: 863e2501037e9f215ff3ec08a1d7802315151e7b
Pull from the modified master
>cd ../trial
>fossil pull ../master/master_repos.fsl
Bytes Cards Artifacts Deltas
Send: 130 1 0 0
Received: 230 6 0 0
Send: 224 2 0 0
Received: 590 8 2 0
Total network traffic: 649 bytes sent, 806 bytes received
>fossil update
Autosync: file://C:/Documents and Settings/james/My Documents/code/test/master/
master_repos.fsl
Bytes Cards Artifacts Deltas
Send: 130 1 0 0
Received: 230 6 0 0
Total network traffic: 295 bytes sent, 337 bytes received
ADD b.b
>type b.b
"hello #2"
ravenspoint
2009-11-12 15:36:27