Comment by chungy

as far as I understand the problem (sorry, the SO isn't the clearest around), Fossil should support this operation. It does one better, since it even tracks exactly where merges come from. In Git, you have a merge commit that shows up with more than one parent, but Fossil will show you where it branched off too.

Take out the last "/timeline" component of the URL to clone via Fossil: https://chiselapp.com/user/chungy/repository/test/timeline

See also, the upstream documentation on branches and merging: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/branching.wiki