I ran into the same problem just yesterday. Took me a while to figure out a
solution. (And, this may not be the only way but it worked well.)
In my case there were two possibilities. For one, I could just do 'unhide' and
see the related timeline.
The other (like yours, probably) did not show anything. I could not go into
the branch (by update or open directly into it), or, in general, see anything
about it; a real ghost! The problem as it turned out was the only tag
associated with it was canceled leaving without any tags. So, I did:
fossil sea cancel tag
(shows all cancel tag related entries. Find the ID of the one I need by
looking at the tags for each entry)
>From the UI, find the related artifact (the one that cancels the tag), and get
>its full ID and shun it, then rebuild.
This will bring the branch back to life, and then you can close it, hide it,
etc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Warren Young
Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2015 2:35 AM
To: Fossil SCM user's discussion
Subject: [fossil-users] How to close an empty branch?
Matt Welland’s recent post reminded me of a problem I’ve been ignoring in our
largest Fossil repo, converted from ~12 years of CVS-then-SVN history.
For some reason, that long history includes a branch that has no checkins,
which means the Fossil UI doesn’t have anything you can click on to close the
branch. Consequently, it shows up in all listings of open branches.
I don’t see how to do it from the command line, short of “fossil sqlite”.
How do I put this bulletproof vampire zombie down? :)
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