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No, not really. If you're unwilling to use a Microsoft code hosting platform, and are unwilling to screw around with hosting your own ticket system, wiki, and
by apotheon 8y ago
No, not really. If you're unwilling to use a Microsoft code hosting platform, and are unwilling to screw around with hosting your own ticket system, wiki, and DVCS all at the same time, but need all three of those things and would be willing to host a CGI script, you get ticket system, wiki, and DVCS "for free" with Fossil by basically just dropping a single binary into cgi-bin.
Self-hosting Git with ticketing system, wiki, and web front-end can be a giant pain, depending on what you need and how you do it. Fossil is stupidly easy, by contrast. Sure, there are some tools out there to make self-hosting Git with all the trimmings easier, but so far I haven't dealt with one that is actually as easy to host as Fossil.
Basic shared hosting with the ability to store repository files and run CGI is enough to self-host Fossil with all the trimmings. Thus, this isn't about replacing Git, per se. It's about replacing GitHub, for at least some people's use cases.