./devel/fossil, Simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 1.22, Package name: fossil-1.22, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

There are plenty of open-source version control systems available
on the internet these days. What makes Fossil worthy of attention?

1. Bug Tracking And Wiki - In addition to doing distributed
version control like Git and Mercurial, Fossil also supports
distributed bug tracking and distributed wiki all in a single
integrated package.

2. Web Interface - Fossil has a built-in and easy-to-use web
interface that simplifies project tracking and promotes situational
awareness. Simply type "fossil ui" from within any check-out
and Fossil automatically opens your web browser in a page that
gives detailed history and status information on that project.

3. Autosync - Fossil supports "autosync" mode which helps to
keep projects moving forward by reducing the amount of needless
forking and merging often associated distributed projects.

4. Self-Contained - Fossil is a single stand-alone executable
that contains everything needed to do configuration management.
Installation is trivial: simply download a precompiled binary
for Linux, Mac, or Windows and put it on your $PATH. Easy-to-compile
source code is available for users on other platforms. Fossil
sources are also mostly self-contained, requiring only the "zlib"
library and the standard C library to build.

5. Simple Networking - Fossil uses plain old HTTP (with proxy
support) for all network communications, meaning that it works
fine from behind restrictive firewalls. The protocol is bandwidth
efficient to the point that Fossil can be used comfortably over
a dial-up internet connection.

6. CGI Enabled - No server is required to use fossil. But a
server does make collaboration easier. Fossil supports three
different yet simple server configurations. The most popular is
a 2-line CGI script. This is the approach used by the self-hosting
fossil repositories.

7. Robust & Reliable - Fossil stores content in an SQLite database
so that transactions are atomic even if interrupted by a power
loss or system crash. Furthermore, automatic self-checks verify
that all aspects of the repository are consistent prior to each
commit. In over two years of operation, no work has ever been
lost after having been committed to a Fossil repository.

Master sites:

SHA1: 02e9be3cf6b072dfd2c98fa7dd05a2df4a14cfb6
RMD160: cc89c07f1ab859ee32cc5facaaa1e45954b69376
Filesize: 2694.819 KB

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   2012-03-23 00:12:42 by Aleksej Saushev | Files touched by this commit (2) | Package updated
Log message:
Update to Fossil 1.22.

Notable changes:

  * Greatly improved "diff" processing including the new --brief option,
    partial line matching, colorized in-line diffs, and better performance.
  * Promote "allow-symlinks" to a versionable setting
  * Harden the CGI processing logic against DOS attacks
  * Add the ability to run TH1 scripts after sync requests
  * Store the repository name in _FOSSIL_ as it is type in the "open" \ 
command,
    possibly as a relative pathname.
  * Make ".fslckout" the alternative name for the "_FOSSIL_" \ 
file.
  * Change the "ssh:" transfer method to allow all access regardless of
    user permission.
  * Improvements to the timeline messages associated with tag changes.
    (Requires a "fossil rebuild" to take effect.)
  * Various additions and fixes for the JSON API.
  * Improved merge-with-rename handling.
  * --cherrypick merges use their origin's commit message by default.
  * Added support for multiple concurrent logins per user.
  * Update to use SQLite version 3.7.11.
  * Various minor bug fixes.
   2012-03-10 09:04:45 by Steven Drake | Files touched by this commit (1) | Package updated
Log message:
Add missing devel/readline buildlink.

Bump PKGREVISION.
   2012-02-08 20:45:41 by Benny Siegert | Files touched by this commit (2) | Package updated
Log message:
Update fossil to 1.21. To download the distfile, one has to log in to the
website now, so the tarball is now on MASTER_SITE_LOCAL.

Changes For Version 1.21 (2011-12-13)

     * Added side-by-side diffs in the command-line interface
     * Automatically enable hyperlinks if the UserAgent string in the HTTP
       header suggests that the requestor is a human and not a bot.
     * Show  only  commonly  used commands with "fossil help". Use \ 
"fossil
       help --all" to see the complete list now.
     * Improvements  to the "stash" command: (1) Stash all files, not just
       those  below  the working directory. (2) Add the --detail option to
       "list".  (3)  Confirm  before  "drop  --all".  (4)  \ 
Add  the "help"
       subcommand.
     * Add  an  Admin/Access setting to change the number of octets of the
       IP  address that are saved in login cookies - allowing this setting
       to be changed to zero
     * Promote the "test-md5sum" command to "md5sum".
     * Added the "whatis" command.
     * Stop  showing  the  server-code in status outputs - it is no longer
       used for anything.
     * Added  a  compile-time option (--with-tcl) to build in the full TCL
       interpreter to augment TH1.
     * Merged  the JSON branch into trunk. Disabled by default. Enabled by
       a  compile-time  option.  Probably it will be enabled by default in
       some future release.
     * Update  to  use  SQLite  version  3.7.9  plus the alignment fix for
       Sparc. align

Changes For Version 1.20 (2011-10-21)

     * Added side-by-side diffs in HTML interface.
     * Added   support   for  symlinks.  (Controlled  by  "allow-symlinks"
       setting, off by default).
     * Fixed  CLI  annotate  to show the proper file version in case there
       are multiple equal versions in history.
     * Timeline now shows tag changes (requires rebuild).
     * Fixed  annotate  to  show "more relevant" versions of lines in some
       cases.
     * New command: ticket history.
     * Disabled SSLv2 in HTTPS client.
     * Fixed    constant    prompting   regarding   previously-saved   SSL
       certificates.
     * Other SSL improvements.
     * Added   -R   REPOFILE   support   to  several  more  CLI  commands.
     * Generated tarballs now have constant timestamps, so they are always
       identical for any given checkin.
     * A number of minor HTML-related tweaks and fixes.
     * Added  --args  FILENAME global CLI argument to import arbitrary CLI
       arguments from a file (e.g. long file lists).
     * Fixed  significant  memory  leak  in  annotation of files with long
       histories.
     * Added warnings when a merge operation overwrites local copies (UNDO
       is  available, but previously this condition normally went silently
       unnoticed).
     * Improved performance when adding many files.
     * Improve merges which contain many file renames.
     * Added protection against timing attacks.
     * Firefox  now  remembers  filled  fields  when  returning  to forms.
     * Added the --stats option to the rebuild command.
     * RSS feed now passes validation.
     * Show overridden user when entering commit comment.
     * Made rebuilding from web interface silent.
     * Now works on MSVC with repos >2GB.
     * A  number  of  code  cleanups  to  resolve  warnings  from  various
       compilers.
     * Update the built-in SQLite to version 3.7.9 beta.

Changes For Version 1.19 (2011-09-02)

     * Added a ./configure script based on autosetup.
     * Added the "fossil winsrv" command for creating a Fossil service
       on windows systems.
     * Added  "versionable  settings" where settings that affect the local
       tree  can  be  stored  in  versioned  files in the .fossil-settings
       directory.
     * Background  colors  for  branches  are  choosen automatically if no
       color is specified by the user.
     * The status, changes and extras commands now show pathnames relative
       to the current working directory, unless overridden by command line
       options or the "relative-paths" setting.
       WARNING:  This  change will break scripts which rely on the current
       output  when  the  current  working directory is not the repository
       root.
     * Added "empty-dirs" versionable setting.
     * Added  support for client-side SSL certificates with "ssl-identity"
       setting and --ssl-identity option.
     * Added   "ssl-ca-location"  setting  to  specify  trusted  root  SSL
       certificates.
     * Added  the  --case-sensitive  BOOLEAN  command-line  option to many
       commands. Default to true for unix and false for windows.
     * Added the "Color-Test" submenu button on the branch list web page.
     * Compatibility improvements to the git-export feature.
     * Performance improvements on SHA1 checksums
     * Update to the latest SQLite version 3.7.8 alpha.
     * Fix the tarball generator to work with very log pathnames.
   2011-12-03 20:38:49 by Aleksey Cheusov | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
Add missing dependency from openssl. This fixes build failure
on Linux and others.
   2011-08-17 15:42:51 by Aleksej Saushev | Files touched by this commit (2) | Package updated
Log message:
Update to Fossil 1.18 (2011-07-13)

Major changes in this release:

  * Added sequential version numbering
  * Added a optional configure script - the Makefile still works
    for most systems.
  * Improvements to the "annotate" algorithm: only search
    primary ancestors and ignore branches.
  * Update the "scrub" command to remove traces of login-groups
    and subrepositories.
  * Added the --type option to the "fossil tag find" command.
  * In contexts where only a check-in makes sense, resolve
    branch and tag names to checkins only, never events or other
    artifacts.
  * Improved display of file renames on a diff. A rebuild is
    required to take full advantage of this change.
  * Update the built-in SQLite to version 3.7.7.
   2011-05-28 17:28:41 by Matthias Drochner | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
the patch isn't needed anymore, upstream uses a wrapper now
   2011-05-28 12:33:00 by Aleksej Saushev | Files touched by this commit (3) | Package updated
Log message:
Update Fossil to release 2011-05-23 15:11:12

New in release 2011-05-23 15:11:12:

This release merges in the windows internationalization patches.
Fossil should now work better on windows machines that use a
non-ASCII and non-UTF8 code page for the DOS box.

New in release 2011-05-12 14:56:52:

This release adds an enhanced configuration sync capability
which entails an irreversible schema change.
You _must_ run "fossil rebuild" on all of your repositories after
updating to this version of fossil.

Other changes in this release include:

  * Refactor the "add", "rm", and "addremove" \ 
commands to
    simplify the code and fix various problems.
  * Added a "diff" hyperlink after each file in the "Show Files"
    timeline view.
  * The "fossil open" and "fossil co" commands always prompt
    before overwriting preexisting files unless the --force
    option is used.
  * Enhanced the merge-conflict markup to show both recent
    versions and the common-ancestor version.
  * Change the definition of what it means to be a "leaf"
    check-in, to be consistent and to work better for most
    people.
  * Commands that recursively decend through the file hierarchy
    ("fossil extra", "fossil clean", etc.) will now ignore
    nested checkouts.
  * Automatically delete the _FOSSIL_ file upon a failed "open".
  * Improvements to the "annotate" feature.
  * Other minor bug fixes.
   2011-05-11 16:48:28 by Matthias Drochner | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
fix the sqlite3-3.7.6 function pointer bug which caused crashes
on amd64