right..  so what you’re saying is once a file is added, its permanently checked 
out basically, and any changes you make to the file are pending a commit.



> On Aug 15, 2017, at 1:10 PM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> Nope - that's git's way of doing it (this is why i thought you were using git 
> as a basis for comparison!). In fossil "add" is a one-time thing which is 
> only necessary one time (ever) per file. (In git "add" is needed to "stage" 
> the file for the next commit.) After a file is added, you use "checkin" to 
> irrevocably commit those changes (along with any number of other changes) to 
> fossil. There is no intermediary step of "pending for the next commit" in 
> fossil. Contrariwise, any changes made in a checked-out copy are always 
> considered "pending for the next commit" (for lack of a better phrase) until 
> they are either committed or discarded (the checkout is deleted, "close"d, or 
> otherwise revered to a pristine state).
> 
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