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diff --git a/development/fossil/README b/development/fossil/README index 3e14b50b03..b72e504d4d 100644 --- a/development/fossil/README +++ b/development/fossil/README @@ -56,3 +56,20 @@ Key technical points: - manifests can be amended by subsequent control artifacts - in most cases, symbolic names refer to the latest matching check-in - branches are implemented using propagating symbolic tags + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +This SlackBuild script installs not only release versions of Fossil but +also arbitrary development versions. If the current directory contains +a file named "fossil-src.tar.gz", it is used as the source archive, and +the check-in timestamp is used as the version string. For example, the +package name could be "fossil-20200320T040201-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz". + +To download the latest trunk development version of Fossil, type: +$ wget http://fossil-scm.org/home/tarball/fossil-src.tar.gz + +To download a specific version of Fossil, type: +$ wget http://fossil-scm.org/home/tarball/$VERSION/fossil-src.tar.gz + +For more information on the allowable $VERSION formats, see: +http://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/checkin_names.wiki |