After reading Mr. Hipp answer to some previous email about git saying: So the staging area is being used as a way of working around the fact that Git does not allow multiple independent check-outs against the same repository? Am I understanding that correctly?
I started to think: what does it mean to have "multiple independent check-outs"? And I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep well because of not knowing. So I created a new test repo, and began: mkdir test cd test fossil new test.fossil mkdir a b cd a fossil open ../test.fossil echo "file a" > a.txt cd .. cd b fossil open ../test.fossil echo "file b" > b.txt cd .. fossil status # replied not within an open checkout Then went to commit in each subdirectory... then did a status... both reflected the check-ins in the correct order... and the other directories weren't there. Actually going to a (the first commited one) and running fossil update trunk did: ADD b.txt REMOVE a.txt So far seems magic, as I don't seem to grasp the power, uses and implications for it. Is there any documentation? This is my first approach to what Mr. Hipp said. Am I mistaken?
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