Fossil

<ul>
<li> [#manifest | Manifests] </li>
<li> [#cluster | Clusters] </li>
<li> [#ctrl | Control Artifacts] </li>
<li> [#wikichng | Wiki Pages] </li>
<li> [#tktchng | Ticket Changes] </li>
<li> [#attachment | Attachments] </li>
<li> [#event | TechNotes] </li>
</ul>

These seven artifact types are described in the following sections.

In the current implementation (as of 2009-01-25) the artifacts that
make up a fossil repository are stored as delta- and zlib-compressed
blobs in an <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/">SQLite</a> database.  This

An example ticket-change artifact can be seen
[/artifact/91f1ec6af053 | here].

<a name="attachment"></a>
<h2>6.0 Attachments</h2>

An attachment artifact associates some other artifact that is the
attachment (the source artifact) with a ticket or wiki page or 
technical note to which
the attachment is connected (the target artifact).
The following cards are allowed on an attachment artifact:

<blockquote>
<b>A</b> <i>filename target</i> ?<i>source</i>?<br />
<b>C</b> <i>comment</i><br />
<b>D</b> <i>time-and-date-stamp</i><br />
<b>N</b> <i>mimetype</i><br />
<b>U</b> <i>user-name</i><br />
<b>Z</b> <i>checksum</i>
</blockquote>

The A card specifies a filename for the attachment in its first argument.
The second argument to the A card is the name of the wiki page or
ticket or technical note to which the attachment is connected.  The
third argument is either missing or else it is the 40-character artifact 
ID of the attachment itself.  A missing third argument means that the
attachment should be deleted.

The C card is an optional comment describing what the attachment is about.
The C card is optional, but there can only be one.

If an attachment is added anonymously, then the U card may be omitted.

The Z card is the usual checksum over the rest of the attachment artifact.
The Z card is required.


<a name="event"></a>
<h2>7.0 Technical Notes</h2>

A technical note or "technote" artifact (formerly known as an "event" artifact)
associates a timeline comment and a page of text
(similar to a wiki page) with a point in time.  Technotes can be used
to record project milestones, release notes, blog entries, process
checkpoints, or news articles.
The following cards are allowed on an technote artifact:

<blockquote>
<b>C</b> <i>comment</i><br>
<b>D</b> <i>time-and-date-stamp</i><br />
<b>E</b> <i>technote-time</i> <i>technote-id</i><br />
<b>N</b> <i>mimetype</i><br />
<b>P</b> <i>parent-artifact-id</i>+<br />
<b>T</b> <b>+</b><i>tag-name</i> <b>*</b> ?<i>value</i>?<br />
<b>U</b> <i>user-name</i><br />
<b>W</b> <i>size</i> <b>\n</b> <i>text</i> <b>\n</b><br />
<b>Z</b> <i>checksum</i>
</blockquote>

The C card contains text that is displayed on the timeline for the
technote.  The C card is optional, but there can only be one.

A single D card is required to give the date and time when the 
technote artifact was created.  This is different from the time at which
the technote appears on the timeline.

A single E card gives the time of the technote (the point on the timeline
where the technote is displayed) and a unique identifier for the technote.
When there are multiple artifacts with the same technote-id, the one with
the most recent D card is the only one used.  The technote-id must be a
40-character lower-case hexadecimal string.

The optional N card specifies the mimetype of the text of the technote
that is contained in the W card.  If the N card is omitted, then the
W card text mimetype is assumed to be text/x-fossil, which is the
Fossil wiki format.

The optional P card specifies a prior technote with the same technote-id
from which the current technote is an edit.  The P card is a hint to the
system that it might be space efficient to store one technote as a delta of
the other.

A technote might contain one or more T-cards used to set
[./branching.wiki#tags | tags or properties]
on the technote.  The format of the T-card is the same as
described in [#ctrl | Control Artifacts] section above, except that the
second argument is the single character "<b>*</b>" instead of an
artifact ID and the name is always prefaced by "<b>+</b>".
The <b>*</b> in place of the artifact ID indicates that
the tag or property applies to the current artifact.  It is not
possible to encode the current artifact ID as part of an artifact,
since the act of inserting the artifact ID would change the artifact ID,
hence a <b>*</b> is used to represent "self".  The "<b>+</b>" on the
name means that tags can only be add and they can only be non-propagating
tags.  In a technote, T cards are normally used to set the background
display color for timelines.

The optional U card gives name of the user who entered the technote.

A single W card provides wiki text for the document associated with the
technote.  The format of the W card is exactly the same as for a 
[#wikichng | wiki artifact].

The Z card is the required checksum over the rest of the artifact.


<a name="summary"></a>
<h2>8.0 Card Summary</h2>

<tr>
<th>Manifest</th>
<th>Cluster</th>
<th>Control</th>
<th>Wiki</th>
<th>Ticket</th>
<th>Attachment</th>
<th>Technote</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>A</b> <i>filename</i> <i>target</i> ?<i>source</i>?</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>

<td align=center><b>1</b></td>
<td align=center><b>1</b></td>
<td align=center><b>1</b></td>
<td align=center><b>1</b></td>
<td align=center><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>E</b> <i>technote-time technote-id</i></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td align=center><b>1</b></td>