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title: Fossil Version Control
subtitle: A User Guide
author: Jim Schimpf, Chris X., Torsten Berg and others
date: 15 April 2024
lang: en
bibliography-meta: |
   Document Number: PAN-20100424
   Revision Number: 3.00
   Pandora Products
   215 Uschak Road
   Derry, PA 15627
rights: |
   2010 Pandora Products. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share
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   and

   Pandora Products<br>
   215 Uschak Road<br>
   Derry, PA 15627

   Phone: 724.539.1276<br>
   Fax: 724.539.1276<br>
   Web: http://www.fossil-scm.org/schimpf-book/index

   Email: jim.schimpf@gmail.com
disclaimer: |
   > Pandora Products has carefully checked the information in this document and believes it to
   be accurate. However, Pandora Products assumes no responsibility for any inaccuracies that this
   document may contain. In no event will Pandora Products be liable for direct, indirect, special,
   exemplary, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from any defect or omission in this
   document, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

   In the interest of product development, Pandora Products reserves the right to make improvements
   to the information in this document and the products that it describes at any time, without
   notice or obligation.

   Additional Contributors

   + Marilyn Noz - Editor

   + Wolfgang Stumvoll - Fossil Merge use and Windows use

   + Paul Ruizendaal - TH 1 Scripting Language manual

   + javalinBCD@gmail.com - found bugs

   + arnel_legaspi@msn.com - found bugs
foreword: |
   # Foreword {.unnumbered}
   This book was started in 2010 using a Dual processor Mac 550 MHz PowerPC running Mac OSX 10.5.
   Current revisions are now done on MacBook Pro (Intel) running MacOS 10.12.1 at 2.5GHz. It was
   originally done using Fossil version 1.27 and now revisions to the book are using Fossil 1.36.
   Because of this some of the pictures here will look slightly different in your copy of Fossil but
   the maintainers have been careful to update the esthetics but not the functions of the various
   pages. So you will see different, better looking pages but the functions will be the same.

   In November 2020, Fossil was up to version 2.14 and there have been extensive changes to the
   command set, so documentation is longer but follows the same pattern as in earlier versions.
   Edits now being done on Debian Linux x64 running on an Intel J1900 cpu at 2GHz with 4 processors
   and 4 GB RAM. Could be done on a Raspberry Pi or Chromebook.

   Now, in April 2024, Fossil is at version 2.23 and the book is being continued and slowly
   updated on a MacBook Pro and a Mac mini from 2015 and 2020, respectively.
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