* Enchanced /reports
* If a username is passed during clone, that user is now the local admin
* Tenfold performance increase in annotate and blame rendering
* Fixed handling of passwords embedded in URL
* Sends gzipped HTTP replies to supporting clients
Changelog:
This is Version 1.27. Key changes in this release include:
Enhance the fossil changes, fossil clean, fossil extras, fossil ls and fossil status commands to restrict operation to files and directories named on the command-line.
New --integrate option to fossil merge, which automatically closes the merged branch when committing.
Renamed /stats_report page to /reports. Graph width is now relative, not absolute.
Added yw=YYYY-WW (year-week) filter to timeline to limit the results to a specific year and calendar week number, e.g. /timeline?yw=2013-01.
Updates to SQLite to prevent opening a repository file using file descriptors 1 or 2 on unix. This fixes a bug under which an assertion failure could overwrite part of a repository database file, corrupting it.
Added support for unlimited line lengths in side-by-side diffs.
New --close option to fossil commit, which immediately closes the branch being committed.
Added chart option to fossil bisect.
Improvements to the "human or bot?" determination.
Reports errors about missing CGI-standard environment variables for HTTP servers which do not support them.
Minor improvements to sync support on Windows.
Added --scgi option to fossil server.
Internal improvements to the sync process.
The internals of the JSON API are now MIT-licensed, so downstream users/packagers are no longer affected by the "do no evil" license clause.
are replaced with .include "../../devel/readline/buildlink3.mk", and
USE_GNU_READLINE are removed,
* .include "../../devel/readline/buildlink3.mk" without USE_GNU_READLINE
are replaced with .include "../../mk/readline.buildlink3.mk".
Changelog:
This is Version 1.26. Key changes in this release include:
The argument to the --port option for the "fossil ui" and "fossil server" commands can take an IP address in addition to the port number, causing Fossil to bind to just that one IP address.
After prompting for a password, also ask if that password should be remembered.
Performance improvements to the diff engine.
Fix the side-by-side diff engine to work better with multi-byte unicode text.
Color-coding in the web-based annotation (blame) display. Fix the annotation engine so that it is no longer confused by time-warps.
The markdown formatter is now available by default and can be used for tickets, wiki, and embedded documentation.
Add subcommands "fossil bisect log" and "fossil bisect status" to the "fossil bisect" command, as well as other bisect enhancements.
Enhanced defenses that prevent spiders from using excessive CPU and bandwidth.
Consistent use of the -n or --dry-run command line options.
Win32: Fossil now understands Cygwin paths containing one or more of the characters "*:<>?|. Those are normally forbidden in win32. This means that the win32 fossil.exe is better usable in a Cygwin environment.
Cygwin: Fossil now understands win32 absolute paths starting with a drive letter everywhere. The default value of the "case-sensitive" setting is now FALSE, except when case-sensitivity is enabled in the Windows kernel.
Enhancements to /timeline.rss, adding more flags for filtering results, including the ability to subscribe to changes made to individual tickets.
Improved handling of the differences between case-sensitive and case-insensitive filesystems.
JSON API: added the 'status' command to report local checkout status.
Fixes to the --args support and documented this feature in the help.
Added /stats_report page.
Added ym=YYYY-MM filter to the "/timeline" url.
Fixed: config reset now re-installs default ticket report format.
ssh:// and file:// protocols now ignore proxy settings.
Added /hash-color-test web page.
Cherry-pick merges are recorded internally (though no yet displayed on the timeline graph.)
Bring in the latest versions of SQLite, zlib, and autosetup from upstream.
Version 1.25:
Enhancements to ticket processing. There are now two tables:
TICKET and TICKETCHNG. There is one row in TICKETCHNG for each
ticket artifact. Fields from ticket artifacts go into either
or both of TICKET and TICKETCHNG, whichever contain matching
column names. Default ticket edit and viewing scripts are
updated to use TICKETCHNG. The TH1 scripting language is enhanced
to support this, including the new "query" command for doing
SQL queries against the repository database. All changes should
be backwards compatible.
Add the ability to moderate ticket and wiki changes. Unmoderated
changes do not sync and may be deleted by the moderator if
found to contain spam or other objectionable content.
Add javascript so that clicking on a node of the timeline graph
selects that node. Then clicking on a second node shows a diff
between the two nodes. Clicking on the selected node unselects
it.
Warn of unresolved merge conflicts in "fossil status" and
disallow commits of unresolved conflicts unless the --allow-conflict
option is used.
Add javascript so that clicking on column headers in a ticket
report sorts by the indicated column.
Add the "fossil cat" command which is basically an alias for
"fossil finfo -p".
Hyperlinks with the class "button" are rendered as submenu
buttons on embedded documentation.
The check-in comment editor on windows now defaults to NotePad.exe.
Correctly deal with BOMs in check-in comments. Also attempt to
convert check-in comments to UTF8 from other encodings.
Allow the deletion of multiple stash entries using multiple
arguments to the "fossil stash rm" command.
Enhance the "fossil server DIRECTORY" command to serve static
content files contained in DIRECTORY. For security, only files
with a recognized suffix (such as *.html, *.jpg, *.txt, etc)
will be delivered as static content, and *.fossil files are
not on the list of recognized suffixes. There are additional
restrictions on the names of the files.
Allow the "fossil ui" command to specify a directory as long
as the the --notfound option is used.
Add a configuration option that causes timeline messages to be
rendered as text/x-fossil-plain (which is the same as text/plain
except that hyperlinks inside of [...] are decorated.)
Only decorate [...] in check-in comments and tickets if the
contented text really is a valid hyperlink target.
Improvements to the side-by-side diff algorithm, for a more
human-friendly display in some complex cases.
Added [utime] and [stime] commands to TH1. These commands can
be used for things such as displaying the page rendering time
in the footer.
Add the ability to pass command-line options of "fossil rebuild"
to "fossil all rebuild".
Add the --deanalyze option to "fossil rebuild" (and "fossil
all rebuild")
Do not run the graphical merging tool nor leave merge-droppings
after a dry-run merge. Display an improved merge-summary message
at the end of the merge.
Add options to "fossil commit" to override the various sanity
checks. Options added: --allow-empty, --allow-fork, --allow-older,
and --allow-conflict.
Optionally require a CAPTCHA (controlled by a setting on the
Admin/Access webpage) when a user who is not logged in tries
to edit wiki, or a ticket, or an attachment.
Improvements to the "ssh://" sync protocol, to help it move
past noisey motd comments.
Add the uf=FILE-SHA1-HASH query parameter to the timeline,
causing the timeline to show only check-ins that contain the
specific file identified by FILE-SHA1-HASH. ("uf" stands for
"uses file".)
Enhance the file change annotator so that it follows the file
across name changes.
Fix the server-side of the sync protocol so that it will not
generate a delta loop when a file changes from its original
state, through two or more intermediate states, and back to
the original state, all within a single sync.
Show much less output during a sync operation, unless the
--verbose option is used.
Set the action= attribute of <form> elements using javascript,
as an addition defense against spam-bots.
Disallow invalid UTF8 characters (such as characters in the
surrogate pair range) in filenames.
Judge the UserAgent strings issued by the NetSurf webbrowser
to be coming from a human, not from a bot.
Add the zlib sources to the Fossil source tree (under compat/zlib)
and use those sources when compiling on (windows) systems that
do not have a zlib library installed by default.
Prompt the user with the option to convert non-UTF8 files into
UTF8 when committing.
Allow the characters *[]? in filenames.
Allow the --context option on diff commands to have a value of
0.
Added the "dbstat" command.
Enhanced "fossil merge" so that if the VERSION argument is
omitted, Fossil tries to merge any forks of the current branch.
Improved detection of forks in a commit race.
Added the --analyze option to "fossil rebuild".
Version 1.24:
Added support for WYSIWYG editing of wiki pages. WYSIWYG is
turned off by default and can be turned on by setting a
configuration option.
Allow style= attribute to occur in HTML markup on wiki pages.
Added the --tk option to the "fossi diff" and "fossil stash
diff" commands, causing color-coded diff output to be displayed
in a Tcl/Tk GUI window. This option only works if Tcl/Tk is
installed on the host.
On windows, make the "gdiff" command default to use WinDiff.exe.
Update the "fossil stash" command so that it always prompts
for a comment if the -m option is omitted.
Enhance the timeline webpages so that a=, b=, c=, d=, p=, and
dp= query parameters (and others) can all accept any valid
checkin name (such as branch names or labels) instead of just
SHA1 hashes.
Added the "fossil stash show" command.
Added the "fileage" webpage with links to this page from the
check-in information page and from the file browser.
Added --age and -t options to the "fossil ls" command.
Added the --setmtime option to "fossil update". When used, the
mtime of all mananged files is set to the time when the most
recent version of the file was checked in.
Changed the "vdiff" webpage to show the complete text of files
that were added or removed (the equivelent of using the -N or
--newfile options with the "fossil diff" command-line.)
Added the --temp option to "fossil clean" and "fossil extra",
causing those commands to only look at temporary files generated
by Fossil, such as merge-conflict reports or aborted check-in
messages.
Enhance the raw page download so that it can guess the mimetype
of attachments based on the filename.
Change the behavior of the from= and to= query parameters on
the timeline page so that by default the path between the two
specified check-ins avoids merges.
Add the --baseurl option to "fossil server" and "fossil http"
commands, so that those commands can be used with reverse
proxies.
If unable to determine the command-line user, do not guess.
Instead issue an error message. This helps prevent check-ins
from accidentally occurring under the wrong username.
Include branch information in the output of file change listings
(the "finfo" webpage).
Make the simplified view of file history, rather than the full
view, the default.
In the "fossil configuration" command, allow the "css" option
for synchronizing, importing, or exporting just the CSS file.
This makes it easier to share CSS files across repositories by
exporting from one and importing to another.
Add the (unsupported) "fossil test-orphans" command.
Add the --template option to the "fossil init" command, to
facilitate creating new repositories based on a template
repository.
Add the diff-binary setting, which if enabled causes binary
files to be passed to the "gdiff" command for it to deal with,
rather than simply printing a "cannot diff binary files" error.
Add the --unified option to the "fossil diff" command to force
a unified diff even if the --tk option (which normally implies
a side-by-side diff) is used.
Present a choice of nearby branches and versions to diff against
on the check-in information page.
Add the --force option to the "fossil merge" command that will
force the merge to occur even if it would be a no-op. This is
sometimes useful for documentation purposes.
Add another built-in skin: "Enhanced Default". Other minor
tweaks to the existing skins.
Add the "urllist" webpage, showing a list of URLs by which a
server instance of Fossil has been accessed. Requires
"Administrator" privileges. A link is on the "Setup" main page.
Enable dynamic loading of the Tcl runtime for installations
that want to use Tcl as part of their configuration. This
reduces the size of the Fossil binary and allows any version
of Tcl 8.4 or later to be used.
Merge the latest SQLite changes from upstream.
Lots of minor bug fixes.
File too long (should be no more than 24 lines).
Line too long (should be no more than 80 characters).
Trailing empty lines.
Trailing white-space.
Trucated the long files as best as possible while preserving the most info
contained in them.
COMMENT should not be longer than 70 characters.
COMMENT should not begin with 'A'.
COMMENT should not begin with 'An'.
COMMENT should not begin with 'a'.
COMMENT should not end with a period.
COMMENT should start with a capital letter.
pkglint warnings. Some files also got minor formatting, spelling, and style
corrections.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- Support for git-fast-export format
- More efficient synchronisation mechanism
- "addremove", "bisect" and "stash" commands
- sqlite3 shell with some bindings to fossil logic like content_get
- undo cleans merge state
- Various improvements and bugfixes to other commands
manifests (resulting in much less metadata for large repositories), lots
of speed ups for the manifest parser, and smaller improvements like revert
dealing with merge records.
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.
