Fossil SCM

A few clarifications to the new glossary.

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A single file that contains all historical versions of all files in a
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project, which can be [cloned] to other machines and
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[synchronized][sync] with them. Jargon: repo.
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-* A Fossil repo is similar to a zip archive in that it is a single
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+* A Fossil repo is similar to an archive file in that it is a single
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file that stores compressed versions of one or more files. Files can be
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extracted from the repo, and new files can be added to the repo,
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- just as with a zip archive, but a Fossil repo has other capabilities
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+ but a Fossil repo has other capabilities
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above and beyond what simple archive formats can do.
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* Fossil does not care what you name your repository files, though
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- we do suggest appending “`.fossil` as a standard extension. There is
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- only one place in Fossil where that’s required, being the “directory
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- name” form of [the `fossil server DIRECTORY` command][svrcmd].
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+ we do suggest “`.fossil`” as a standard extension. There is
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+ only one place in Fossil where that convention is required, being the
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+ [`fossil server DIRECTORY`][svrcmd] command, since it serves up
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+ `*.fossil` files from `DIRECTORY`. If you don’t use that feature,
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+ you can name your repo files anything you like.
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* Cloned and synced repos redundantly store all available information
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about that project, so if any one repo is lost, all of the cloned
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historical content of the project as of the last sync is preserved
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in each surviving repo.
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--- www/glossary.md
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102 A single file that contains all historical versions of all files in a
103 project, which can be [cloned] to other machines and
104 [synchronized][sync] with them. Jargon: repo.
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106 * A Fossil repo is similar to a zip archive in that it is a single
107 file that stores compressed versions of one or more files. Files can be
108 extracted from the repo, and new files can be added to the repo,
109 just as with a zip archive, but a Fossil repo has other capabilities
110 above and beyond what simple archive formats can do.
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112 * Fossil does not care what you name your repository files, though
113 we do suggest appending “`.fossil` as a standard extension. There is
114 only one place in Fossil where that’s required, being the “directory
115 name” form of [the `fossil server DIRECTORY` command][svrcmd].
 
 
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117 * Cloned and synced repos redundantly store all available information
118 about that project, so if any one repo is lost, all of the cloned
119 historical content of the project as of the last sync is preserved
120 in each surviving repo.
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--- www/glossary.md
+++ www/glossary.md
@@ -101,20 +101,22 @@
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102 A single file that contains all historical versions of all files in a
103 project, which can be [cloned] to other machines and
104 [synchronized][sync] with them. Jargon: repo.
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106 * A Fossil repo is similar to an archive file in that it is a single
107 file that stores compressed versions of one or more files. Files can be
108 extracted from the repo, and new files can be added to the repo,
109 but a Fossil repo has other capabilities
110 above and beyond what simple archive formats can do.
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112 * Fossil does not care what you name your repository files, though
113 we do suggest “`.fossil`” as a standard extension. There is
114 only one place in Fossil where that convention is required, being the
115 [`fossil server DIRECTORY`][svrcmd] command, since it serves up
116 `*.fossil` files from `DIRECTORY`. If you don’t use that feature,
117 you can name your repo files anything you like.
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119 * Cloned and synced repos redundantly store all available information
120 about that project, so if any one repo is lost, all of the cloned
121 historical content of the project as of the last sync is preserved
122 in each surviving repo.
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