Pulling from a remote repository with edits does not always exactly replicate the remote repository. This happens, for example, when the remote repo did a merge and then reverted some of the files that were changed by the merge. The following is a test case using the Fossil repository itself:

• fossil up de6f88a6f00fa854
• fossil merge f0a48c8faad9c3db
• fossil revert src/merge.c
• Move to another directory and/or another computer.
• fossil patch pull ORIGINAL-CHECKOUT
• fossil diff src/merge.c

The final "fossil diff" in the test sequence above shows changes in the src/merge.c file. The "fossil revert" from the third step of the procedure did not get carried over by the "fossil patch pull".