Unversioned files do not appear in the local check-out, by design.  It
would be an enhancement to make them do so.

But you are not the first to request that capability.  I've been on a
Fossil-enhancement binge lately - perhaps I can find the time to fix
that for you...

On 6/26/18, j. van den hoff <veedeeh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> today I convinced a colleague to give fossil a try. so we set up a project
> (two checkouts/clones, one central server/repo), using a planned journal
> article (to be written in latex) as the test case.
>
> now, while I never have used 'unversioned files' so far, he immediately
> wanted to try this option for the jpeg-figures to be included (and
> probably modified 100 times before the paper is completed).
>
> good: he managed to get them into his repo and to sync it to the server.
> good: I managed to sync the unversioned files into my repo.
>
> problems/questions:
>
> 1.
> the files do not materialize in my checkout after "sync -u". they are
> "just" present in my local repository. that probably is as it should be
> (just as with standard `sync'). but there seems to be no equivalent to
> `fossil up' for the unversioned files.
>
> question: what is the canonical way to get them out of the repo? I see the
> export command but it probably is not the idea to issue 20 export commands
> (or to write a shell script for that)?
>
> 2.
> if I export the files manually now, what happens after the next push of
> unversioned files by my colleague? I guess, I can sync them (but am not
> really notified of changed content) but would have again to export them
> manually (and would have to know that this is required)?
>
> maybe I am missing some stupid point here, but my expectation would have
> been that unversioned files mostly behave like tracked/versioned files in
> that there should be an update facility (say `fossil up -u' or something
> like that) of these files in my local checkout?
>
> thank you,
>
> joerg
>
>
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