I still don't think I want those in the repo history, and (for a public repo) this opens up a security hole, letting arbitrary people write directly to code fil

I still don't think I want those in the repo history, and (for a public repo) this opens up a security hole, letting arbitrary people write directly to code files. I'm not familiar at all with Fossil; perhaps its design makes this possible in a way that doesn't work so well with Git.