diff --git a/manifest b/manifest
index 4cb717bf18..8984444fe6 100644
--- a/manifest
+++ b/manifest
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-C Attempt\sto\sreduce\sdivergence\swith\sbegin-concurrent.
-D 2024-11-18T16:44:26.814
+C Attempt\sto\sreduce\sdivergence\swith\sthe\swal2\sbranch.
+D 2024-11-18T17:05:45.350
 F .fossil-settings/empty-dirs dbb81e8fc0401ac46a1491ab34a7f2c7c0452f2f06b54ebb845d024ca8283ef1
 F .fossil-settings/ignore-glob 35175cdfcf539b2318cb04a9901442804be81cd677d8b889fcc9149c21f239ea
 F LICENSE.md e108e1e69ae8e8a59e93c455654b8ac9356a11720d3345df2a4743e9590fb20d
@@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ F src/test_demovfs.c 3efa2adf4f21e10d95521721687d5ca047aea91fa62dd8cc22ac9e5a9c9
 F src/test_devsym.c 649434ed34d0b03fbd5a6b42df80f0f9a7e53f94dd1710aad5dd8831e91c4e86
 F src/test_fs.c c411c40baba679536fc34e2679349f59d8225570aed3488b5b3ef1908525a3d5
 F src/test_func.c 8c0e89192f70fac307822d1ac2911ee51751288780b3db0c5ab5ca75fa0fe851
-F src/test_hexio.c 0f777bf9fbb2684bb4978372bacc90ef7337d5d9e3cebe067a9409941e88bacf
+F src/test_hexio.c 7449504e4bde876ba91b202617a9228c7c8c2e7bd8b957302f3803ac0e9e353c
 F src/test_init.c 17313332d58e90defc527129d5eda4a08bd6b6e8de7207a231523c8d98fb445e
 F src/test_intarray.c e4216aadee9df2de7d1aee7e70f6b22c80ee79ece72a63d57105db74217639e5
 F src/test_intarray.h 6c3534641108cd1bea517a8e117dcba237081310a29a4c35bd2190caa8972293
@@ -1583,7 +1583,7 @@ F test/savepoint.test 6e9804a17767f08432c7a5e738b9a8f4b891d243110b63d3a41d270d3d
 F test/savepoint2.test 9b8543940572a2f01a18298c3135ad0c9f4f67d7
 F test/savepoint4.test c8f8159ade6d2acd9128be61e1230f1c1edc6cc0
 F test/savepoint5.test 0735db177e0ebbaedc39812c8d065075d563c4fd
-F test/savepoint6.test f41279c5e137139fa5c21485773332c7adb98cd7
+F test/savepoint6.test 48a645a7bb3a59a6fcf06a7364cfe5b655c336760de39068f7c241b0fc80d963
 F test/savepoint7.test cde525ea3075283eb950cdcdefe23ead4f700daa
 F test/savepointfault.test f044eac64b59f09746c7020ee261734de82bf9b2
 F test/scanstatus.test b249328caf4d317e71058006872b8012598a5fa045b30bf24a81eeff650ab49e
@@ -2198,8 +2198,8 @@ F tool/version-info.c 3b36468a90faf1bbd59c65fd0eb66522d9f941eedd364fabccd7227350
 F tool/warnings-clang.sh bbf6a1e685e534c92ec2bfba5b1745f34fb6f0bc2a362850723a9ee87c1b31a7
 F tool/warnings.sh 49a486c5069de041aedcbde4de178293e0463ae9918ecad7539eedf0ec77a139
 F tool/win/sqlite.vsix deb315d026cc8400325c5863eef847784a219a2f
-P e1330ecf170436678c5c235557fb95b8acbf4fad62583edba4af03aff49afbc5
-R f888b7564d00e145c0007eac37a11cdd
+P f783d90187fb326faa3d0244b30138b023c4a8483486f260b7a022a927c13f3a
+R 6377acb59760f57785ee6902b4729fcf
 U drh
-Z 42957bc99f867ff6f91e562cbfd36cd8
+Z a7e2057b268c20267be2a2d81b2bdc9a
 # Remove this line to create a well-formed Fossil manifest.
diff --git a/manifest.uuid b/manifest.uuid
index a9ea9de121..d63c796f20 100644
--- a/manifest.uuid
+++ b/manifest.uuid
@@ -1 +1 @@
-f783d90187fb326faa3d0244b30138b023c4a8483486f260b7a022a927c13f3a
+e0d8f9916c2d899094b71af74f44e089a97db6d80f09eb80a5d8be733c1bf942
diff --git a/src/test_hexio.c b/src/test_hexio.c
index 3c856b3306..1a21e89aa0 100644
--- a/src/test_hexio.c
+++ b/src/test_hexio.c
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ static int SQLITE_TCLAPI hexio_write(
 }
 
 /*
-** USAGE:   hexio_get_int   HEXDATA
+** USAGE:   hexio_get_int [-littleendian] HEXDATA
 **
 ** Interpret the HEXDATA argument as a big-endian integer.  Return
 ** the value of that integer.  HEXDATA can contain between 2 and 8
@@ -205,12 +205,20 @@ static int SQLITE_TCLAPI hexio_get_int(
   const unsigned char *zIn;
   unsigned char *aOut;
   unsigned char aNum[4];
+  int bLittle = 0;
 
-  if( objc!=2 ){
-    Tcl_WrongNumArgs(interp, 1, objv, "HEXDATA");
+  if( objc==3 ){
+    Tcl_Size n;
+    char *z = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[1], &n);
+    if( n>=2 && n<=13 && memcmp(z, "-littleendian", n)==0 ){
+      bLittle = 1;
+    }
+  }
+  if( (objc-bLittle)!=2 ){
+    Tcl_WrongNumArgs(interp, 1, objv, "[-littleendian] HEXDATA");
     return TCL_ERROR;
   }
-  zIn = (const unsigned char *)Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[1], &nIn);
+  zIn = (const unsigned char *)Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[1+bLittle], &nIn);
   aOut = sqlite3_malloc64( 1 + nIn/2 );
   if( aOut==0 ){
     return TCL_ERROR;
@@ -223,7 +231,11 @@ static int SQLITE_TCLAPI hexio_get_int(
     memcpy(&aNum[4-nOut], aOut, nOut);
   }
   sqlite3_free(aOut);
-  val = (aNum[0]<<24) | (aNum[1]<<16) | (aNum[2]<<8) | aNum[3];
+  if( bLittle ){
+    val = (int)((u32)aNum[3]<<24) | (aNum[2]<<16) | (aNum[1]<<8) | aNum[0];
+  }else{
+    val = (int)((u32)aNum[0]<<24) | (aNum[1]<<16) | (aNum[2]<<8) | aNum[3];
+  }
   Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewIntObj(val));
   return TCL_OK;
 }
diff --git a/test/savepoint6.test b/test/savepoint6.test
index b1d0d46f5c..6b41ef2da9 100644
--- a/test/savepoint6.test
+++ b/test/savepoint6.test
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ set testdir [file dirname $argv0]
 source $testdir/tester.tcl
 
 proc sql {zSql} {
+  if {0 && $::debug_op} {
+    puts stderr "$zSql ;"
+    flush stderr
+  }
   uplevel db eval [list $zSql]
   #puts stderr "$zSql ;"
 }
@@ -67,11 +71,13 @@ proc x_to_y {x} {
 #   delete_rows XVALUES
 #
 proc savepoint {zName} {
+  if {$::debug_op} { puts stderr "savepoint $zName" ; flush stderr }
   catch { sql "SAVEPOINT $zName" }
   lappend ::lSavepoint [list $zName [array get ::aEntry]]
 }
 
 proc rollback {zName} {
+  if {$::debug_op} { puts stderr "rollback $zName" ; flush stderr }
   catch { sql "ROLLBACK TO $zName" }
   for {set i [expr {[llength $::lSavepoint]-1}]} {$i>=0} {incr i -1} {
     set zSavepoint [lindex $::lSavepoint $i 0]
@@ -89,6 +95,7 @@ proc rollback {zName} {
 }
 
 proc release {zName} {
+  if {$::debug_op} { puts stderr "release $zName" ; flush stderr }
   catch { sql "RELEASE $zName" }
   for {set i [expr {[llength $::lSavepoint]-1}]} {$i>=0} {incr i -1} {
     set zSavepoint [lindex $::lSavepoint $i 0]
@@ -104,6 +111,7 @@ proc release {zName} {
 }
 
 proc insert_rows {lX} {
+  if {$::debug_op} { puts stderr "insert_rows $lX" ; flush stderr }
   foreach x $lX {
     set y [x_to_y $x]
 
@@ -116,6 +124,7 @@ proc insert_rows {lX} {
 }
 
 proc delete_rows {lX} {
+  if {$::debug_op} { puts stderr "delete_rows $lX" ; flush stderr }
   foreach x $lX {
     # Update database [db]
     sql "DELETE FROM t1 WHERE x = $x"
@@ -164,6 +173,11 @@ proc random_integers {nRes nRange} {
 } 
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+set ::debug_op 0
+proc debug_ops {} {
+  set ::debug_op 1
+}
+
 proc database_op {} {
   set i [expr int(rand()*2)] 
   if {$i==0} {
@@ -185,9 +199,6 @@ proc savepoint_op {} {
   set C [lindex $cmds [expr int(rand()*6)]]
   set N [lindex $names [expr int(rand()*5)]]
 
-  #puts stderr "   $C $N ;  "
-  #flush stderr
-
   $C $N
   return ok
 }