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Is fossil just a "me too" of git? The release date is suspiciously shortly after git.
by oh_sigh 5y ago
Is fossil just a "me too" of git? The release date is suspiciously shortly after git.
- djur 5y agoIt came out two years after Git and Mercurial. Richard Hipp cites Monotone (which preceded both) as an early influence, and says he evaluated Git, Mercurial, and Monotone before deciding to implement his own DVCS on top of SQLite in order to develop SQLite. https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/history.md https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/history.md
- qbasic_forever 5y agoIt has explicitly different design goals than git. Read its comparison page of fossil vs. git features. Git is just a "me too" of the BitKeeper source control system that Linus used before he wrote git. Linus isn't even trying to hide the fact--he explicitly says he wrote git because he had to move off BitKeeper after a license conflict and he needed something that was functionally similar for kernel development.