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Important note mentioned here is that sqlite doesn't accept external contributions and has a very small team. The Fossil folks and the sqlite folks are also ess
by ddevault 4y ago
Important note mentioned here is that sqlite doesn't accept external contributions and has a very small team. The Fossil folks and the sqlite folks are also essentially the same team. Fossil is a boutique VCS which essentially only exists for sqlite.
- gwd 4y ago...and that also has certain consequences for Fossil's design and workflow; namely, an aversion to the "rebase"-style development [1]. A project with a handful of known contributors could reasonably use Fossil; for a project with dozens of contributors, which also wanted to be able to accept "drive-by" contributions, Fossil would be unworkable. [1] https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/rebaseharm.md https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/rebaseharm.md
- sigzero 4y agoExactly. The Tcl Core Team (TCT) uses Fossil.