Fossil

<h2>1.0 Obtaining The Source Code</h2>

<p>Fossil is self-hosting, so you can obtain a ZIP archive containing
a snapshot of the latest version directly from fossil's own fossil
repository.  Follow these steps:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Pointer your webbrowser at
<a href="http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/login">
http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/login</a>.</p></li>

<li><p>Log in as anonymous.  The password is shown on screen.
The reason for requiring this login is to prevent spiders from
walking the entire website, downloading ZIP archives
of every historical version, and thereby soaking up all our bandwidth.</p></li>

<li><p>Click on the 

executable.
(NB: The bug-tracker component is not yet completely functional, but
we expect it to be available soon.)
Fossil is
<a href="http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/timeline">self-hosting</a>
since 2007-07-21 on
<a href="http://www.hwaci.com/cgi-bin/fossil/timeline">two separate servers</a>.
You can download the lastest sources
compile it yourself using the instructions below.
Or you can grab
<a href="http://www.fossil-scm.org/download.html">precompiled binaries</a>.
</p>

<p>Design Goals For Fossil:</p>

<li>The <a href="concepts.wiki">concepts</b> behind fossil</li>
<li><a href="build.wiki">Building And Installing</a></li>
<li><a href="quickstart.wiki">Quick Start</a> guide to using fossil
<li>Fossil supports <a href="embeddeddoc.wiki">embedded documentation</a>
    that is versioned along with project source code.</li>
<li>The <a href="selfcheck.wiki">automatic self-check</a> mechanism
helps insure project integrity.</li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/wiki">self-hosting
    fossil wiki</a>, capable of hosting static pages and community-editable wiki
    content.</li>
<li>There is a
    <a href="http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users">
    mailing list</a> available for discussing fossil issues.</li>
</ul>

<p>Developer Links: </p>

    you want to clone, and it may include a "user:password" part, e.g.
    <tt>http://drh:secret@www.fossil-scm.org/fossil</tt>. You can
    call the new repository anything you want - there are no naming
    restrictions.  As an example, you can clone the fossil repository
    this way:</p>
    
    <blockquote>
    <b>fossil clone http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil myclone.fossil</b>
    </blockquote>

    <p>The new local copy of the respository is stored in a single file,
    which in the example above is named "myclone.fossil".
    You can name your repositories anything you want.  The ".fossil" suffix
    is not required.</p>

    <b>fossil new </b><i> repository-filename</i>
    </blockquote>
    
</blockquote><h2>Configuring Your Local Repository</h2><blockquote>
    
    <p>When you create a new repository, either by cloning an existing
    project or create a new project of your own, you usually want to do some
    local configuration.  This is accomplished using a webbrowser.  First
    start a fossil webserver like this:</p>
    
    <blockquote>
    <b>fossil ui </b><i> repository-filename</i>
    </blockquote>

    <p>This creates a mini-webserver listening on port 8080.  You can
    specify a different port using the <b>-port</b> option on the command-line.
    After the server is running, fossil will then attempt to launch your
    web browser and make it point to this web server.  If your system
    has an unusual configuration, fossil might not be able to figure out
    how to start your web browser.  In that case, start the web browser
    yourself and point it at http://localhost:8080/.  Click on the
    "Setup" link on the menu bar to start configuring your repository.</p>