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<p>
A manifest has zero or more F-cards.  Each F-card defines a file
(other than the manifest itself) which is part of the baseline that
the manifest defines.  There are two, three, or three arguments.
The first argument
is the pathname of the file in the baseline relative to the root
of the project file hierarchy.  No ".." or "." directories are allowed
within the filename.  Space characters are escaped as in C-card
comment text.  Backslash characters and newlines are not allowed
within filenames.  The directory separator character is a forward
slash (ASCII 0x2F).  The second argument to the F-card is the
full 40-character lower-case hexadecimal SHA1 hash of the content

check-in comment argument to the C-card.
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<p>
A manifest has an option Z-card as its last line.  The argument
to the Z-card is a 32-character lowercase hexadecimal MD5 hash
of all prior lines of the manifest up to and including the newline 
character that immediately precedes the "Z".  The Z-card is just
a sanity check to prove that the manifest is well-formed and
consistent.
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<h2>2.0 Clusters</h2>

<p>
A cluster is a artifact that declares the existence of other artifacts.
Clusters are used during repository synchronization to help 
reduce network traffic.  As such, clusters are an optimization and
may be removed from a repository without loss or damage to the
underlying project code.
</p>

<p>
Clusters follow a syntax that is very similar to manifests.
A Cluster is a line-oriented text file.  Newline characters
(ASCII 0x0a) separate the artifact into cards.  Each card begins with a single
character "card type".  Zero or more arguments may follow
the card type.  All arguments are separated from each other
and from the card-type character by a single space
character.  There is no surplus white space between arguments
and no leading or trailing whitespace except for the newline 
character that acts as the card separator.
All cards of a cluster occur in strict sorted lexicographical order.
No card may be duplicated.
The cluster may not contain additional text or data beyond 
what is described here.
Unlike manifests, clusters are never PGP signed.
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<p>

some other artifact.  The T card has two or three values.  The
second argument is the 40 character lowercase artifact ID of the artifact
to which the tag is to be applied. The
first value is the tag name.  The first character of the tag
is either "+", "-", or "*".  A "+" means the tag should be added
to the artifact.  The "-" means the tag should be removed.
The "*" character means the tag should be added to the artifact
and all direct descendants (but not branches) of the artifact down
to but not including the first descendant that contains a 
more recent "-" tag with the same name.
The optional third argument is the value of the tag.  A tag
without a value is a boolean.</p>

<p>When two or more tags with the same name are applied to the
same artifact, the tag with the latest (most recent) date is
used.</p>

programmer who entered this change.  The Z card is the checksum over
the entire artifact.</p>

<p>
Every ticket has a unique ID.  The ticket to which this change is applied
is specified by the K card.  A ticket exists if it contains one or
more changes.  The first "change" to a ticket is what brings the
ticket into existence.</p>

<p>
J cards specify changes to the "value" of "fields" in the ticket.
If the <i>value</i> parameter of the J card is omitted, then the
field is set to an empty string.
Each fossil server has a ticket configuration which specifies the fields its
understands.  The ticket configuration is part of the local state for
the repository and thus can vary from one repository to another.
Hence a J card might specify a <i>field</i> that do not exist in the 
local ticket configuration.  If a J card specifies a <i>field</i> that
is not in the local configuration, then that J card
is simply ignored.</p>

<p>
The first argument of the J card is the field name.  The second
value is the field value.  If the field name begins with "+" then
the value is appended to the prior value.  Otherwise, the value
on the J card replaces any previous value of the field.
The field name and value are both encoded using the character
escapes defined for the C card of a manifest.
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