On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Tony Papadimitriou <[email protected]> wrote:

> * this seems kind of pointless,  given I can open the same repo in multiple
> locations at the same time.  Are you sure you're not referring to the
> separate _FOSSIL_ database, instead, or some special operation that changes
> that table?
>

It records each one, so that "fossil all" knows what "all" is.


> * please note that opening the repo using the UI interface, looking around,
> and even downloading single files, does not change the database at all.
>  How
> can this interface manage to do all this work without a single write to the
> database?
>

The culprit is the CLI interface. All checkouts opened via the CLI
interface record that fact in both the repo db and the global config db.
Without doing so, the "all" family of commands cannot work.

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