• Create a fossil sub-directory in your home directory

~]$ mkdir ~./fossil

• Go to that directory. You are now in the "fossil CLI"

~]$ cd fossil
~/fossil]$

• Clone the master Repository. You'll need fossil SCM installed first

~/fossil]$ fossil clone https://chiselapp.com/user/tp/repository/svd2db-rel

• You now have a new Repository file and a new working directory. Don't ever delete either unless you want to remove this project. Backup svd2db-rel.fossil if it's important to you. You don't need to backup the working directory as it's all in the svd2db-rel.fossil repo, providing you have been committing all changes.

  ~./fossil]$ ls
  ~./fossil]$ svd2db-rel.fossil svd2db-rel/
  

• Go to the new 'project' working directory. You need to be in this directory for Fossil to work with this project. Other Fossil projects have their own sub directories and Repositories.

  ~/fossil]$ cd svd2db-rel
  

• Disable autosync so if you later start developing on your new "svd2db-rel" repository, then try and commit your changes, "commit" will only save your changes locally to your repo and won't try to push the changes you've made back to my master repo, (and give you an error when it fails for incorrect password). Everything will still work if you don't do this, but youll just get an annoying error message on every commit.

~/fossil/svd2db-rel]$ fossil settings autosync off