@@ -6,23 +6,18 @@ cli. <i>This was suggested under the <b>Reference</b> heading in [Documentation outline]. <h3>Things to note</h3> Fossil cli commands do not use special delimeters, they use spaces. -This is traditional with VCS/SCM. +This is traditional with VCS/SCM. Some <i>options</i> to fossil commands +<i>do</i> use special delimiters, particularly the '-' (hyphen, or dash) +character. This is very similar to Tcl. Any fossil command is acceptable once enough of it has been entered to make the intent unambiguous. 'clo' is a proper prefix of both the 'clone' and 'close' commands, for instance, but 'clon' is enough to make the intent—the 'clone' command—unambiguous. - -<h3>Caveats</h3> -This is not actually a reference, it's the start of a reference. -There are wikilinks to uncreated pages for the commands. This was -created by running the fossil help for each command listed by running -fossil help... Duplicate commands are only listed once (I -<i>think</i>). Title and taxes extra. Not valid in Hooptigonia. <code>fossil help</code><nowiki><pre> Usage: fossil help COMMAND. Available COMMANDs: add commit http rebuild tag @@ -587,5 +582,21 @@ Diffs the local copy of a page with a given version (defaulting to the head version). </pre></nowiki> + +<hr> + +<h3>Caveats</h3> +This is not actually a reference, it's the start of a reference. +There are wikilinks to uncreated pages for the commands. This was +created by running the fossil help for each command listed by running +fossil help... Duplicate commands are only listed once (I +<i>think</i>). There are several bits of <b>fossil</b> that are not addressed +in the help for commands (special wiki directories, special users, etc.) +so they are currently not addressed here, Clarity and brevity may be +sacrificed for expediency at the authors indiscretion. All spelling and +grammatical mistakes are somebody elses fault. Title and taxes extra. +Not valid in Hooptigonia. + +