Hello

In case anyone's really interested in reading this:

Just a little test to try out the behavior of the new fossil git export feature of Fossil SCM.

Here is the slightly larger test version of the function by the author(s) himself, which mirrors the source code of Fossil.

Attention

The whole thing is actually only intended for storage and it cannot be ruled out that the behaviour of the then modified software will lead to undesired results.

Check possible bugs in behavior with an unpatched version of fossil before you report a bug at Fossil SCM.

The latest official versions of Fossil SCM: https://fossil-scm.org/home/uv/download.html

Changes (updated for v2.20)

The diff contains a few changes for Fossil SCM and unravels the command input for ambiguous commands according to personal preferences.

The current default behavior of Fossil would be (which is pretty cool in itself):

$ fossil cl
fossil: ambiguous command prefix: cl
fossil: could be any of: clean clean-glob clearsign clone close
fossil: use "help" for more information

Offical aliases in fossil are

Alias	Command
ci	commit
co	checkout
uv	unversioned
new	init

The new aliases are

Alias	Command	Ambiguous command prefixes in v2.20
addrm	addremove	n/a
ch	changes	changes chat checkout cherry-pick
cl	clean	clean clone close
de	descendants	deconstruct delete descendants describe detach
des	describe	descendants describe
ex	extras	export extras
in	info	info init interwiki
pool	stash	n/a
private	unpublished	n/a
re	revert	rebuild reconstruct redo remote remote-url rename reparent revert
ss	stash	ssl-config
st	status	stash status
tgz	tarball	n/a
tkdiff	diff --tk	n/a
tl	timeline	tls-config
un	undo	undo unpublished unset unversioned

Further changes in behavior

The diff command can now also use -u for --unified and -q instead of --brief.

The -h switch for global use has been added to display the help.

Disadvantages

You must use the long form of option -h in the following commands:

--html at commands: help, wiki
--versions at command: diff
--dereference at commands: sha1sum, sha3sum, test-tarball, test-filezip

The command call of fossil stash without further options now points to fossil stash list and not to fossil stash save as before.

The hidden test commands test-grep and test-diff are now more visible as fgrep xgrep and fdiff xdiff default since v2.17 (and mainly intended as a help for Windows use). Wir hatten ja nichts.

Visible as 1st tier command (fossil help): tkdiff, pool, xgrep Visible as 2nd tier command (fossil help -x): addrm, private, tgz

Comments

With this commit the new method was introduced and described and is included in Release v2.20. Thank you for this new feature among the other wonderful things.

Other things from roadside

• fnc: an interactive text-based user interface for Fossil See also: man fnc

• GWSL makes pretty windows when fossil runs on Windows in WSL.

• The environment variable FOSSIL_USER is useful to keep the name of the committer stable between machines and operating systems. For the commands fossil init -A (aka new) and fossil clone -A a different admin user name should be specified with the -A option.

Usage (we all get old some day)

Go to the root directory of the source files and do something like that patch -u -p 0 --dry-run < cmd-aliases.diff for testing.

My currently preferred build options: ./configure --disable-fusefs --json --with-openssl=auto --with-tcl=1 --with-tcl-private-stubs=1 or ./configure --disable-fusefs --json --with-openssl=auto or nmake /f Makefile.msc FOSSIL_ENABLE_SSL=1 FOSSIL_ENABLE_JSON=1 FOSSIL_ENABLE_TCL=1 OPTIMIZATIONS=4 clean fossil.exe

See also:

• Compiling and Installing Fossil
• Release Build How-To
• How to build Fossil into OCI compatible containers

Reminder for me: If patch is not lying around under Windows, then busybox or wsl -e is my friend.

Another way to get changes in (since v2.16): fossil patch and patch -h

• and (local) online as a Windows Service fossil winsrv create -P 8080 -S auto -R D:/Path/to/Repos --repolist & fossil winsrv start
• and wide fossil uv --help
• Althttpd with CGI