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Wiki page [bugs] by anonymous on 2009-09-21 06:04:16.

D 2009-09-21T06:04:16
L bugs
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<h2>Fossil Bugs</h2>

  *  Good starting point for evaluation of Fossil on windows platform is ability to work with wiki. 
The frustrating issue is that I can't manage to add files to repository to be able to play with them locally and start to use it.
For troubles encountered please see [Windows XP]
So far the only approximation available to me is deducing its features from www.fossil-scm.org web side.
I am trying to debug latest code (2008-07-13 12:08:47), with little progress. I would really appreciate, advice where to look to have workable windows environment.(ability to add/commit). Thanks.

  *  Is there any working mailing list for Fossil?<br><i>Yes, there is. Subscription at [http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users] .<br>The mailing list archives can be accessed by subscribers at [http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/private/fossil-users] .<br>Non-subscribers can access archives at [http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/|mail-archive] and [http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.fossil-scm.user|gmane] .</i>

  *  Great plans are described on fossil pages, unfortunately on XP it so far allows only editing wiki pages, no check in of files. Some details on [Windows XP].
<br><i>Fossil compiles and works fine on e.g. on Windows Vista (gcc 3.4.5 mingw32) and OpenSolaris 2008.11 (gcc 3.4.3 csl-sol210-3_4-20050802), including fossil as webserver daemon and as CGI program behind Apache 2.2.9</i>

   *  anonymous may break wiki-security by simply accessing any wiki page as
http://my.server.test/fossil/wikiedit?name=SomeWikiPage.

  *  Building on some Unix platforms (e.g. [OpenSolaris]) requires adding -lsocket to the linker args. To do this, set LDFLAGS=-lsocket and the Makefile will add that to the linker args. (Requires a fossil newer than 2008.04.25)
  
  *  .filename files (like .htaccess) can't be added in fossil repositories for some reason.  The complaint is "illegal character in file name".
<br><i>This has been changed - you can now check-in files whose names begin with "."</i>
 
  *  On Windows XP, clone command and friends "unable to open database file" error message. See [Windows XP]

  *  (arjenmarkus) The description of the Wiki formatting rules is slightly confusing - maybe because I am used to the Tclers' Wiki, but I could not get the bullets to work.
<br><i>drh sez: two spaces, a "*", then two more spaces, then your text.</i>
 
  *  (arjenmarkus) An HTML document rendered using Tcllib's doctools was shown in truncated form (see [http://fortran.sqlite.org/index.html/wiki?name=Documentation]).
<br><i>drh sez:  This was fixed in [71104b898d] - just needed to recompile the fossil on the website.</i>

  *  (arjenmarkus) If you use the pre and /pre tag in the Wiki, then empty lines inside these tags result in a new paragraph, not an empty line.  
<br><i>drh sez:  The &lt;pre&gt; markup does not disable wiki. 
Use &lt;nowiki&gt;&lt;pre&gt; instead.</i>
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