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fossil update

Somehow I stumbled over Joerg Sonnenberger's fossil repository clone of the NetBSD src tree (wich is originally a CVS repo): http://netbsd.sonnenberger.org/

Very handy.

I had fooled around with fossil some years ago, so I looked at the current state of the project (still very active) and decided to give one of my old fossil installations from 4 years ago an update:

1. Use the old fossil binary to clone the current fossil source repository from http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil.
2. Create a new fossil binary and install it over the old one, without any safety belt.
3. Tried a fossil status and fossil info, got errors, the information that the database format had changed, and the advice to do a fossil rebuild.
4. Which went very quickly and smooth, and most importantly: made everything work again. Not just for the current fossil repository but also for my own tiny repository from back when.

I like software wich takes care of itself, even across four years.