SHA1 Hash:	44a4c365a75a1f2906bfacde12690415056dc161
Date:	2008-05-19 13:08:01
User:	stephan
Comment:	explained the clone command in a bit more detail (what it does and where to go from there)
Timelines:	ancestors | descendants | both | trunk
Other Links:	files | ZIP archive | manifest

• branch=trunk inherited from [a28c83647d]
• sym-trunk inherited from [a28c83647d]

Modified www/quickstart.wiki from [e76c743118] to [7b2cbf4808].

@@ -14,10 +14,12 @@
     someplace on your PATH environment variable.</p>
 
     </blockquote>
     <h2>Cloning A Existing Repository</h2>
     <blockquote>
+ 	<p>Cloning is the first step in checking out a repository,
+	and is fossil's equivalent to making a local copy of a remote repository.</p>
 
     <p>Use this command:</p>
 
     <blockquote>
     <b>fossil clone</b> <i>URL  repository-filename</i>
@@ -29,10 +31,15 @@
     clone the fossil repository this way:</p>
 
     <blockquote>
     <b>fossil clone http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil myclone.fsl</b>
     </blockquote>
+
+    <p>Cloning only a local copy of the source tree (as a single file), but
+        not something you can directly browse. After cloning, you can access
+        the files in the repository using the <tt>open</tt> command,
+        described below</p>
 
     <p>Note: If you are behind a restrictive firewall, you might need
     to <a href="#proxy">specify an HTTP proxy</a> to use.</p>
 
 </blockquote><h2>Starting A New Project</h2><blockquote>