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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?

+3  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.

  1. Run fossil server in the original repository
  2. Go to the destination directory and run fossil clone http://localhost:8080 <repository name> (or push or pull)
Josh Matthews
Thanks for your reply. I tried it and I still get the following reply: "2fossil: server says: server loop".Any ideas?
Mosh
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
Notice that in the previous comment, Stackoverflow took the http address literally. Can someone with editing privileges fix this?
Mosh
+8  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
I will try this method. Thanks. Where were you two months ago? ;)
Mosh
+1 for taking the time to write a detailed example! :)
Carlos Lima