Here's a "screenshot" from the timeline of the Fossil clone showing what's happening:
<pre><verbatim>$ fossil timeline
=== 2010-10-03 ===
04:00:09 [33857fed56] Add attachment "verify_at_commit.diff" to ticket
         [76d3ecfdab] (user: anonymous)
03:14:34 [16e5a2198b] New ticket [76d3ecfdab] <i>verify_at_commit should print
         status</i>. (user: anonymous)
02:40:24 [2531e176fb] New ticket [2a1e8e3c4b] <i>content_get can recursive too
         deep</i>. (user:

The italic tags are showing for ticket summary lines, which probably should not be given it's running in CLI.