issue with fossil in source code README.md
(1) By Peter MacDonald (pmacdona) on 2021-04-05 18:51:12 [source]
As reported on the Fossil forum.
Due to a change in fossil 2.12, the fossil instructions in the Sqlite README.md no longer work for recent versions of fossil.
mkdir ~/sqlite
cd ~/sqlite
fossil clone https://www.sqlite.org/src sqlite.fossil
fossil open sqlite.fossil
directory ~/sqlite is not empty
use the -f or --force option to override
In my estimation "fossil open" should be changed to exempt the .fossil argument.
(2) By Richard Hipp (drh) on 2021-04-05 19:24:48 in reply to 1 [link] [source]
That seems like a reasonable long-term solution. But it will take some time for a version of Fossil that supports that to propagate through the ecosystem. So in the meantime, the README.md file has been adjusted to give a procedure that should work for any version of Fossil after 2.0.