Fossil

Fossil is a “distributed software version control system that includes an integrated distributed wiki and an integrated distributed bug-tracking system all in a single, easy-to-use, stand-alone executable” (via Eric Sink). It’s from D. Richard Hipp, the developer of SQLite and CVSTrac. It uses SQLite for transactional storage, and like CVSTrac it runs its own Web server. I don’t believe Fossil solves any problems that I have, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

Fossil SQLite Version Control

Opening Header Files via LaunchBar

I’ve long used LaunchBar to quickly open Mac OS X header files. The built-in “Development Resources” indexing rule can be configured to scan headers. However, this has two problems:

1. The headers are commingled with the HTML reference files. I do want access to the reference files, but sometimes I know I want to open the header.
2. It opens headers from the 10.4u SDK even though I’m running Leopard.

Here’s a LaunchBar AppleScript that will only open headers, and it will open all the matching headers:

on handle_string(_string)
    do shell script "echo '1' | open -h " & _string's quoted form
end handle_string

The “1” is because if there are multiple matches, open will ask you what it should do:

open -h NSAttr
NSAttr?
[0] cancel
[1] all
[2] /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Headers/NSAttributedString.h
[3] /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreData.framework/Headers/NSAttributeDescription.h
[4] /System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Headers/NSAttributedString.h

And I want to pick “all.”