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Re: Fossil Chat

#31

Post by alberth »

Has anyone seen a demo?

I tried to created an account to see it live at https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/chat but it appears they have /chat locked down to authorized accounts.

(Regardless of what others might be saying in this thread, I think this functionality is great. It reinforces the centralization of your dev related work. Plus, presumably they are using SQLite on the backend - so /chat might result in now additional functionality being added to SQLite that might also be beneficiary e.g. removing blocking on writes, etc)

Re: Fossil Chat

#33

Post by exikyut »

HI!

What it looks like: https://imgur.com/a/PaHExsp

Here's Fossil 2.15 running on EC2: http://54.79.202.57/register - this link will allow you to create a new account.

Alternatively, the "chat" user (password "chat") can be used if you don't want to make an account. [It used to have the ability to create additional users (with admin privs), with the result that the fossil instance rapidly began spouting SQL errors and I had to reset it, twice. That was fun...]

The instance is completely ephemeral. If this comment is more than a week or so old, expect the above IP to be dead (I'll be cycling the VM).

And yes - note that it's going over HTTP, not HTTPS :P (that would have taken an extra, uhh, while)

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If you're using 'chat': once you've opened the above link, go to "login", login, then locate the new "chat" tab. You can optionally go to Admin > Users and make yourself a new account (the "Add" link is a little hard to see, it's to the far left immediately under the tab bar; also be sure to select "Chatroom" from the far right in the permissions list).

Re: Fossil Chat

#34

Post by rubyist5eva »

Hendrikto wrote: post #30
HeckFeck wrote: post #2

Does anyone use Fossil? I'm considering it for my personal projects. I like all it offers for the relatively low resource usage. The only use of it I've seen in the wild is Ripcord ( https://dev.cancel.fm/issues ), which is interestingly also relatively low resource usage compared to its competitor.

Fossil looks very interesting, but I completely disagree with their [stance on rebasing]( https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/rebaseharm.md ). This is a dealbreaker for me. I do not consider having 10 buggy commits per feature instead of 1 working one an advantage. It just complicates reading history and hinders debugging (e.g. bisect). I get their arguments, I just disagree.

This is what private branches are for - when you merge them and sync they show up as a single commit on the mainline branch - not too different from git merge --squash.

Re: Fossil Chat

#35

Post by exDM69 »

danpalmer wrote: post #8

> Fossil chat is not intended as a replacement or competitor for So what is it for? If it's another inbox to check that's a bit of a productivity drain. I could understand if it was explicitly designed to compete with other chat platforms. This would seem to fit with Fossil's mission well.

Fossil is offline. You sync up when connected and then you have code, issues, wiki, chat that work offline, and sync when connected again.

It's not an instant messenger, more like a mail box or a bulletin board. Which works when network is down.

Re: Fossil Chat

#36

Post by orf »

oblio wrote: post #32
orf wrote: post #28

mdel, ltime, mtime. Why do people insist on oft unreadable short column names?

Because they're cdevs.

I think you mean cdvs, the e is clearly overkill, takes up more bytes on disk, increases compile times and eats up valuable screen real estate! The last one is especially bad, because it will make the code that uses it harder to read.

Re: Fossil Chat

#37

Post by theamk »

HeckFeck wrote: post #2

Does anyone use Fossil? I'm considering it for my personal projects. I like all it offers for the relatively low resource usage. The only use of it I've seen in the wild is Ripcord ( https://dev.cancel.fm/issues ), which is interestingly also relatively low resource usage compared to its competitor.

I avoid it because of complete lack of commit amendment tools.

It seems like quarter of the time I make a commit I mess up either a commit message or a file list, and have to "git amend". I have no idea how the sqlite devs live without the feature, they must be much more careful programmers than I am.

Re: Fossil Chat

#38

Post by rcarmo »

HeckFeck wrote: post #2

Does anyone use Fossil? I'm considering it for my personal projects. I like all it offers for the relatively low resource usage. The only use of it I've seen in the wild is Ripcord ( https://dev.cancel.fm/issues ), which is interestingly also relatively low resource usage compared to its competitor.

I used it for quite some time, still have archived repos on it because they’re a single file and very easy to move around.

Mostly moved to gitea on a home NAS for the GitHub sync capability (makes it easy to have a local copy of dependencies, etc.)

But I do miss the straightforwardness (and sometimes bluntness) of fossil sometimes. Much easier to deal with for personal projects.

Re: Fossil Chat

#39

Post by exikyut »

alberth wrote: post #31

Has anyone seen a demo? I tried to created an account to see it live at https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/chat but it appears they have /chat locked down to authorized accounts. (Regardless of what others might be saying in this thread, I think this functionality is great. It reinforces the centralization of your dev related work. Plus, presumably they are using SQLite on the backend - so /chat might result in now addi…

See my comment over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26579872

Re: Fossil Chat

#40

Post by sigzero »

halfmatthalfcat wrote: post #27

Where are the screenshots?? How infuriating is it to go to a project's homepage that has a UI and not see any goddamn screenshots. This is absolutely table stakes if you want me to use your product. edit: Oh haha, the website is literally Fossil. Ok but I wanna see what the chat UI and other stuff looks like.

Pretty much what I'd expect...

https://imgur.com/a/EQ2wSQi

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