As reported on the [Fossil forum](https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/bc5f8f6e59?t=h). Due to a change in fossil 2.12, the fossil instructions in the [Sqlite README.md](https://sqlite.org/src/doc/trunk/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.