I recovered my previous repository from backup, and did a new checkout (fossil open) before running 'pull' again. This time it worked.

eric added on 2009-04-13 14:10:43:
Worse than that, I think.

fossil clone http://www.fossil-scm.org/ myclone.fossil

gets an empty repository, but (many) repeated pulls will then get evertyhing up to date.

drh added on 2009-04-13 15:59:24:
This might be due to some subtle incompatibility introduced by 737e76a69fbc2e or a related check-in. Do you have the same problem using a client built from the latest code, or is this only an issue with older clients?

bharder added on 2009-04-13 16:33:03:
I've been experiencing this same isssue (empty repo on clone) with recent client (i.e.: approx. ece2...). Haven't tried repeated pulls as fix, so can't comment.

eric added on 2009-04-13 18:00:40:

eric@tasso:~/devel/fossil$ ./fossil ver
This is fossil version 879e8c5f32 2009-04-13 09:50:42 UTC
eric@tasso:~/devel/fossil$ ./fossil clone http://www.fossil-scm.org/ clone1.fsl
                Bytes      Cards  Artifacts     Deltas
Send:             552         22          0          0
Received:      223152       4706          0          0
Send:            9449        200          0          0
Received:           0          0          0          0
Rebuilding repository meta-data...
4680 (100%)...
project-id: CE59BB9F186226D80E49D1FA2DB29F935CCA0333
server-id:  6fe76b21f279f652a0970c6b7d27afbd1f75b531
admin-user: eric (password is "add78b")

Starts with 327823e39b , 737e76a69f is OK.

anonymous claiming to be Gé Weijers (ticket creator) added on 2009-04-15 18:52:34:
This is still going on, it took two attempts to download the latest (updated sqlite version) using fossil version a742cfa292. This is what I saw:

ge@gw-aa1:~/fossil$ fossil pull
Server:    http://www.fossil-scm.org/
                Bytes      Cards  Artifacts     Deltas
Send:             130          1          0          0
Received:        3174         70          0          0
Send:             600         10          0          0
Received:           0          1          0          0
ge@gw-aa1:~/fossil$ fossil pull
Server:    http://www.fossil-scm.org/
                Bytes      Cards  Artifacts     Deltas
Send:             600         11          0          0
Received:       60812         80          7          3
ge@gw-aa1:~/fossil$ fossil pull
Server:    http://www.fossil-scm.org/
                Bytes      Cards  Artifacts     Deltas
Send:             130          1          0          0
Received:        3174         70          0          0