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50 most recent check-ins by user wyoung

2025-05-03
11:38
Typo fix in `fossil help comment-format` output ... (check-in: 7438f5b0 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
2025-04-24
02:51
Reworked the discussion of "fossil server" in the Quick Start to remove redundant discussion of "fossil ui" mode, previously covered. Moved some things up into that section as a result. The two modes are now treated independently, on purpose; the fact that they're implemented by a lot of shared code is an internal implementation detail, not something we need to make a point of in the Quick Start doc. ... (check-in: 6a2fee8f user: wyoung tags: trunk)
02:24
Tooting SQLite's horn in the "you may safely Ctrl-C out of fossil ui" bit in the Quick Start. The truth of this claim is no accident. ... (check-in: 9c07d8a3 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
02:16
Changed one of the just-added links to an external doc to a section further down, which _then_ links to that doc. ... (check-in: e6c4176c user: wyoung tags: trunk)
02:12
Added a paragraph to allay fears about the "localhost bypasses the RBAC" fears the prior discussion of "fossil ui" may raise. This gives another chance to direct the user to "fossil server" and the rest of the /www/server/ docs. ... (check-in: afb3db92 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
02:10
Further tightening of the Quick Start. ... (check-in: eb52410b user: wyoung tags: trunk)
01:34
Tightened up a wordy paragraph in the Quick Start by moving the link inline. ... (check-in: 529b9479 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
01:32
Replaced repeated parenthetical explanations in the Quick Start doc with links to the glossary entry. No longer referencing the glossary directly; readers will click through one of these two new links and find it, or not. ... (check-in: ab7a22f5 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
2025-03-30
11:18
Replaced the mention of "fossil branch new" in the Quick Start doc with a link to the section of the gitusers doc which explains why this is not the recommended way of working with Fossil. Both options remain documented, but now we bring Git expats to the place where many of their _other_ questions are most likely to be answered. ... (check-in: f04b61f7 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
11:08
Expanded the "Starting A New Project" section of the Quick Start doc to cover the next few common steps. Also updated the "fossil version" example above it to the current release version to keep the doc from looking *too* outdated. ... (check-in: 4f42caee user: wyoung tags: trunk)
2025-02-10
19:21
Split the MSYS2/Cygwin build instructions out from the MinGW ones and updated both. Dropped mention of "MSYS", having not tested the current build under it. If it still works, and someone cares to revive the instructions, that should be done only after retesting. ... (check-in: 73840434 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
19:04
Narrowed the configure script's is_mingw test: it was checking only the output of uname for `*mingw*`, but that catches MSYS2, which provides a Linux-like environment, not what this MinGW test is meant to handle. ... (check-in: 5c6dee54 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
2024-12-20
19:44
Edit pass on the www/ssl-server.md to cover some of the details brought up on the forum. This also adds fragment IDs for section heads and improves the discussion generally. ... (check-in: f374a463 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
2024-12-19
11:59
Comment improvements in the Dockerfile ... (check-in: 693c7b9b user: wyoung tags: trunk)
2024-11-01
07:13
Giving the h1.page-title below the menu bar the same off-black tint as the content body headers (#444) when shown, not full black, giving it an out-of-place appearance. ... (check-in: 7253b15a user: wyoung tags: trunk)
07:10
Added .content CSS selector qualification layer for /artifact, /dir, /fileedit, and /wiki pages to keep the 10px left indent on the h1 layer from affecting the page header h1, causing the repo name at the top of the default skin to shift relative to the menu bar, but only for these pages. ... (check-in: 8e562a0d user: wyoung tags: trunk)
2024-10-26
09:10
Reworked the final paragraph of the whyallinone doc to be clearer in pointing out that external web apps can be linked bidirectionally with Fossil. ... (check-in: 7d50f614 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
2024-10-16
17:03
Removed a pointless diff relative to trunk. ... (check-in: 3d430cf7 user: wyoung tags: bv-corrections01)
2024-09-03
17:06
Removed redundant LIBS=-lfuse, causing duplicate library warning in the case where autosetup determines it's needed. Calling cc-check-function-in-lib already appends the library to LIBS if needed. ... (check-in: 07673a13 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
17:03
Merged experimental branch md-col-header-alignment ... (check-in: 9f8bf691 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
14:56
Minimal change to MD to HTML styling to allow `:` alignment markers to be obeyed. Without this, the skin's default left alignment takes over because although it's brought in at the head of the document, the body doesn't override it because our CSS selectors are more specific, giving them precedence. ... (Closed-Leaf check-in: 5e5732f1 user: wyoung tags: md-col-header-alignment)
2024-09-02
17:26
Double-quoted the list of monospaced font family names to conform to CSS rules for this. That browsers tolerated spaces in unquoted names is not something we should count on. ... (check-in: 2126566e user: wyoung tags: trunk)
2024-08-06
22:35
The new zebra-striped table styling in the default skin was not targeting /wiki docs, only .wiki embedded docs, leaving them unstyled. ... (check-in: 072a8609 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
17:22
Changed a fatal error message speaking of the TCP socket's port number in a call to a function that may now use a Unix socket instead. ... (check-in: 28de3fab user: wyoung tags: unix-sockets)
2024-07-26
05:02
Fixed a typo reported on the forum. ... (check-in: 1b719694 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
2024-06-25
11:59
Typo and clarity fixes to the new fpp doc. ... (Leaf check-in: 2194b4d1 user: wyoung tags: fpp)
2024-04-26
17:36
Added internal link spacer to colordiff doc, without which the #diffutils reference appears to be a no-op. (Comment edit needed to fix Fossil eating the rest of the Vim-edited comment after the "#".) ... (check-in: fdd8057d user: wyoung tags: trunk)
17:35
Fixed a broken link in the new colordiff doc due to being extracted from the gitusers doc. ... (check-in: 44987916 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
17:33
Explained why we don't leave diff-command unset for the "bat" alternative. ... (check-in: 9fca91e8 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
17:28
Added a new doc distilling all the common methods for getting colorized diffs. Extracted its seed from the gitusers doc in part because it isn't Git-specific, and because there are more options to cover, sufficient to justify a separate doc. ... (check-in: 7c99ebc5 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
16:19
Indent fix in gitusers.md to make it use a monospace font for nested command examples. ... (check-in: dd8d1a58 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
16:17
The recent gitusers doc improvements allow a better HTML fragment target; the browser's scroll-back includes the new section header now rather than target a paragraph within another section. ... (check-in: 567658a7 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
15:54
Clarity tweaks to the "Closing a Check-Out" section in the gitusers doc. ... (check-in: 6a4f2d23 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
15:32
In response to a recent forum thread, added a new section to the gitusers doc, "Fossil Never Auto-Commits". The ideas behind this were previously expressed implicitly, but con-fused with others, resulting in the lack of clarity characteristic of alchemical slag.

Put the new section before "There Is No Staging Area" as that follows on from these ideas, then calved off the subsequent section "Commit Splitting" because it covers related but separate ideas. Together, these three form a conceptual whole that is considerably clearer than the prior presentation. ... (check-in: 5f5452f1 user: wyoung tags: trunk)

2024-04-23
13:48
Updated the release date for 2.24 in the changelog, plus a few minor grammar fixes. ... (check-in: 8cb7a744 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
2024-03-30
20:48
Removed all references to "Fossil 2.1x" from the docs, excepting the changelog and the hashpolicy doc. The bulk of these were for 2.14 or older — *ten* versions back now! — and there is no reason to suppose such old versions are still in use any more. These notes were justified when they informed users about surprising changes and feature additions, but they now do nothing but clutter the docs. If I am wrong about people being surprised by these things, we still have the changelog, the timeline, and the forum. ... (check-in: ad47a447 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
2024-03-16
23:01
Referenced prior commit's feature in the changelog ... (check-in: 6f532afa user: wyoung tags: trunk)
22:56
Allow rendering of Pikchrs to SVG via /doc/…/foo.pikchr?popup URLs. This allows a file stored in the repo to be referenced as an SVG from other pages. ... (Closed-Leaf check-in: 758170bc user: wyoung tags: render-pikchr-via-doc-popup)
2024-02-29
19:48
Removed extra indent in the login groups doc. Not caught earlier because it's buried in the "caps" section. ... (check-in: a7255ba5 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
2024-02-28
18:16
URL fix in previous; remote path needs to be part of the URL, and we can avoid giving the local clone path by using the new clone-and-open functionality. ... (check-in: 69959fa5 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
18:10
Extended the sync doc with info about PATH implications of finding the fossil binary on the remote system over ssh: URLs, including formal documentation (for the first time?) of the ?fossil= query parameter. ... (check-in: a975ccb7 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
17:52
Added fragment identifiers to the h2 and h3 levels of the sync doc, for referring to individual sections. ... (check-in: 5ca63acf user: wyoung tags: trunk)
2024-02-23
17:48
Reworked the handling of the three "selected" row cases in /timeline (current, first-in-range and last-in-range) so the borders and highlighting extend to the left margin. The "current" case (seen under "fossil ui" only, to indicate the ckout version) wasn't a problem, but the other two use background colors potentially confusable with branch colors. This makes the timelines more like that of the Fossil 2.23 and prior default skin (now called Étienne) but with rounded corners in the modern modes, matching the rest of the timeline.

This occurs in all timeline modes, including the classic, compact, and verbose views. The result is that the corners for these selected row types are rounded, but because they tend to be compact, it gives a full-round look on the ends. Avoiding this would require considerably more verbose CSS, and it's plenty intricate as it is. ... (check-in: 9568091a user: wyoung tags: trunk)

01:56
Extended [b272004b] to cover the "classic" timeline mode as well. ... (check-in: ef4a1e81 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
01:20
Comment cell highlighting in /timeline now takes into account the compact and verbose modes better, and it separates out the rounding from the coloring so it can apply less rounding and a bit more padding in these same two cases, to avoid having the text near the corners crash into the borders. ... (check-in: b272004b user: wyoung tags: trunk)
2024-02-20
14:35
Changed home page title from "Home" to "A Coherent Software Configuration Management System" since docs now show the title in the body area. "Home" in the title area was fine, but now it wants something more explanatory of the page's content.

Moved the list of links on the right up a bit as a result.

Switched the ASCII hyphens to em dashes in the list of Fossil attributes belo. ... (check-in: 452726d6 user: wyoung tags: trunk)

2024-02-18
20:31
Improved appearance of the new CGI URL breakdown Pikchr: colorized it and made use of polygons instead of spindly lines to indicate the parts. ... (check-in: 11420bbb user: wyoung tags: trunk)
15:56
Further improvements to pre styling, now taking MD forum posts into account. ... (check-in: 77f91620 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
15:46
Merged two redundant style rules for sidebars. Manual merge error? ... (check-in: 825efe96 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
15:35
Removed horizontal rules in backup doc used to offset the bigger code blocks. Between the new light-gray background and the indents, they're adding noise more than helping break the page up. ... (check-in: 6b520900 user: wyoung tags: trunk)