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- 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