The "deconstruct" command:

Usage fossil deconstruct ?OPTIONS? DESTINATION

This command exports all artifacts of a given repository and writes all artifacts to the file system. The DESTINATION directory will be populated with subdirectories AA and files AA/BBBBBBBBB.., where AABBBBBBBBB.. is the 40+ character artifact ID, AA the first 2 characters. If -L|--prefixlength is given, the length (default 2) of the directory prefix can be set to 0,1,..,9 characters.

Options:

-R|--repository REPOSITORY

Deconstruct given REPOSITORY.

-K|--keep-rid1

Save the filename of the artifact with RID=1 to the file .rid1 in the DESTINATION directory.

-L|--prefixlength N

Set the length of the names of the DESTINATION subdirectories to N.

--private

Include private artifacts.

-P|--keep-private

Save the list of private artifacts to the file .private in the DESTINATION directory (implies the --private option).