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I like Fossil very much. It is compact, yet offers a nice variety of features. I especially like the integrated web interface and the fact that the Wiki, with i
by krylon 9y ago
I like Fossil very much. It is compact, yet offers a nice variety of features. I especially like the integrated web interface and the fact that the Wiki, with its entire editing history is transmitted along the regular file operations on the repo whenever a repo is cloned or pulled. (I use Fossil to track the source tree of scripts, little programs and SQL queries I write at work, and of my personal "monorepo" at home where all of my toy projects live. I.e. I have not done anything big with fossil, but for smaller repos it has served me very, very well.)
Also, on Windows it is just a single, statically-linked executable, so "installing" it is as simple as copying the executable into a folder that is in your %PATH%.
I am sure Git supports a lot of advanced use cases that Fossil does not, but for my needs, it is pretty close to perfect.
One feature I do miss the ability to copy a file along with its version history up to that point. It is not super important, but sometimes it would be helpful if one could see that a given file started its life as a "fork" of another file.
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