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What does fossil do that git or hg don't? I'd love to hear some real world examples.
by mikebo 17y ago
What does fossil do that git or hg don't? I'd love to hear some real world examples.
- stonemetal 17y agoIt adds bug tracking and project wiki to your DVCS.
- ellyagg 17y agoIt's a one file install. You can easily run it behind firewalls. It has built-in wiki and issue tracking. You can run it from a jailed host; it requires no access to apache config, it has its own server. You can give users accounts on it. You can run it in autosync mode, where everyone's changes are sync'd through a central repo, or you can use manual merge for disconnected use. It uses the battle-tested sqlite as its transactional local store. It is designed to optimize the author's preferred workflow, so if you agree with him in principle, you'll like its ui. Like, e.g., git, it uses SHAs for "artifact" tracking; the sqlite db can be rebuilt from the canonical artifacts. I haven't looked for any comparisons, but it's extremely efficient space- and bandwidth-wise. It's written in SQL, which is semantically efficient, so it's easy to understand how it works.