It seems that I have found a bug in fossil. I found this as I was trying to add a file but a diff of my commit shows that I removed one as well. However when I committed, I only specified the file that I wanted to add:

fossil commit path/to/file_to_add -m "Added file."

I performed the following operations to test and reproduce the bug:

# mkdir /tmp/fossilbug
# cd /tmp/fossilbug
# fossil new my.fossil
project-id: 2b1773e0efaf0a28844f51226f4dcf88ff7ed73b
server-id:  1b7807e55a0d9c863b0e47063d59ef700d7f03cc
admin-user: admin (initial password is "15b831")
# fossil open my.fossil
# date > file1
# date > file2
# date > file3
# date > file4
# fossil add file*
ADDED  file1
ADDED  file2
ADDED  file3
ADDED  file4
# fossil commit -m "Added 4 test files"
New_Version: 181cd0b02dfd84476e804eb9230e87c7ff26bdcb
# fossil delete file1
DELETED  file1
# date > file4
# fossil changes
DELETED    file1
EDITED     file4
# fossil commit file4 -m "committing ONLY the modified while a file is pending deleted"
New_Version: 98de35d30e35a6a206c943b7b34afbe4744db2cf
# fossil changes
DELETED    file1

As you can see, I created a new fossil repo for my test. Added 4 files with random content and committed.

Then I removed one file and I modified another. I commit the file that I modified but not the file that I removed. In my local folder, the deleted file is still pending. However... if you use finfo or diff.. you will see that the file WAS deleted on my commit.

# fossil finfo file1
History of file1
2010-11-23 [98de35d30e] DELETED test modified while a file is pending deleted
           (user: roychri)
2010-11-23 [181cd0b02d] test 1 (user: roychri, artifact: [99d7a1f973])
# fossil diff --from 181cd0b02dfd84476e804eb9230e87c7ff26bdcb --to 98de35d30e35a6a206c943b7b34afbe4744db2cf
DELETED file1
CHANGED file4
Index: file4
===================================================================
--- file4
+++ file4
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
-Tue 23 Nov 2010 10:14:01 EST
+Tue 23 Nov 2010 10:14:32 EST

Then when I commit the deleted file, it creates an empty commit (diff empty and not files in list).

CONCLUSION:

I cannot perform a partial commit (where I specify each file on the command line) when I have pending deleted files that I am NOT ready to commit.

anonymous added on 2010-11-24 14:06:58: It seemed that fossil is not formatting my entry the way I expected. Sorry about that.

You can view source to see it well. The admins of this site can put a "pre" HTML tag around my text so the formatting is better.

I cannot seem to be able to edit my previous entry.

anonymous added on 2010-11-25 01:30:16: I see that the resolution is fixed but... no comment. Which version of fossil has this fix? It would be nice to have this information so I can test it... :)

Thanks