Opening a fossil project
The fossil open command extracts the files from a repository. It's usually simplest to create a subfolder under the folder with the fossil repository to hold the project.
How to do it...
Download the fossil repository:
$ fossil clone http://example.com/ProjectName project.fossilMake a new folder for your working directory and change to it:
$ mkdir newFeature $ cd newFeature
Open the repository in your working folder:
$ fossil open ../project.fossilHow it works...
The fossil open command extracts all the folders, subfolders, and files that have been checked into the fossil repository.
There's more...
You can use fossil open to extract specific revisions of the code in the repository. This example shows how to check out the 1.0 release to fix an old bug. Make a new folder for your working directory and change it as follows:
$ mkdir fix_1.0_Bug $ cd fix_1.0_Bug
Open the repository in your working folder:
$ fossil open ../project.fossil release_1.0
