Every repository as an initial check-in which is empty.  But it always has
a different SHA1 hash, since it also includes the timestamp from when the
repository was created.  Example:

    http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/info/a28c83647d

And the actual text of the manifest artifact:

   http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/artifact/a28c83647dfa805f




On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 6:23 PM, David Given <d...@cowlark.com> wrote:

> hg has a concept of the changeset with uuid
> 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000. This is the empty changeset,
> and is equivalent to the parent of the very first checkin. Checking out
> this changeset will give you an empty repository; checking in with this
> as the parent will give you a new tree, not connected to the old one.
>
> I find myself needing to do this in Fossil: both as something I can
> check out to remove all files from the working directory, and something
> I can use as a parent so I can create multiple revision trees.
>
> AFAIK there's nothing in the Fossil architecture to forbid it --- is
> there any way I can do this?
>
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