Cloning a remote fossil repository
Because the fossil repository is contained in a single file, you can clone it simply by copying that file. You can send a fossil repository to another developer as an e-mail attachment, put it on a website, or copy it to a USB memory stick.
The fossil scrub command removes user and password information that the web server may require from the database. This step is recommended before you distribute copies of your repository.
How to do it...
You can clone fossil from a site running fossil in the server mode with the fossil clone command. The fossil clone command distributes the version history, but not the users and password information:
$ fossil clone http://RemoteSite:port projectName.fossil
How it works...
The fossil clone command copies the repository from the site you've specified to a local file with a name you provide (in the example: projectName.fossil
).