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<h2>Installing</h2><blockquote>
<p>Fossil is a single self-contained C program that you need to
<a href="build.html">install</a> before using. Build the binary
- and put is someplace on your PATH environment variable.</p>
+ and put it someplace on your PATH environment variable.</p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Cloning A Existing Repository</h2>
<blockquote>
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<b>fossil clone</b> <i>URL repository-filename</i>
</blockquote>
<p>The <i>URL</i> above is the http URL for the fossil repository
- you want to clone. The new repository can be called anything you
+ you want to clone. You can call the new repository anything you
want - there are no naming restrictions. As an example, you can
clone the fossil repository this way:</p>
<blockquote>
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</blockquote><h2>Configuring Your Local Repository</h2><blockquote>
<p>When you create a new repository, either by cloning an existing
- project or create a new project of your, you usually want to do some
+ project or create a new project of your own, you usually want to do some
local configuration. This is accomplished using a webbrowser. First
start a fossil webserver like this:</p>
<blockquote>
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<b>fossil commit</b>
</blockquote>
<p>You will be prompted for check-in comments using whatever editor
- is specified by your VISUAL or EDITOR environment variable. After
- you save your check-in comments, your changes will be checked in.</p>
+ is specified by your VISUAL or EDITOR environment variable. If you
+ have GPG installed, you may be prompted for your GPG passphrase so
+ that the check-in can be signed with your GPG signature. After
+ this your changes will be checked in.</p>
</blockquote><h2>Sharing Changes</h2><blockquote>
<p>The changes you <b>commit</b> are only on your local repository.
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/usr/bin/fossil http /home/proj1/repos1.fsl
</b></blockquote>
<p>Adjust the paths to suit your installation, of course. Notice that
- fossil runs as run. This is not required - you can run it as an
+ fossil runs as root. This is not required - you can run it as an
unprivileged user. But it is more secure to run fossil as root.
When you do run fossil as root, it automatically puts itself in a
chroot jail in the same directory as the repository, then drops
root privileges prior to reading any information from the request.</p>