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> But it's more interesting to compare the philosophies between the two tools. So what are their philosophies? Fossil is for small things and git is for scalab

• shagie 8y ago
  Git is a filesystem ( https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects ). > Git is a content-addressable filesystem. Great. What does that mean? It means that at the core of Git is a simple key-value data store. What this means is that you can insert any kind of content into a Git repository, for which Git will hand you back a unique key you can use later to retrieve that content. That's a great thing for matching the mindset of someone writing operating system software. Fossil is on top of a relational database... which is also a great thing for matching the mindset of someone writing a relational database.