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> Fossil is a recent git alternative It’s almost as old as git. Fossil has been around since 2006, while git was born in 2005. > Merge conflicts aren’t first

> Fossil is a recent git alternative It’s almost as old as git. Fossil has been around since 2006, while git was born in 2005. > Merge conflicts aren’t first class Another DVCS where conflicts are first class is Pijul. It also has a solid theoretical foundation, which it inherited (and expanded upon) from its predecessor, Darcs.

chungy 3y ago
> > Fossil is a recent git alternative > It’s almost as old as git. Fossil has been around since 2006, while git was born in 2005. I'm assuming the author recently discovered fossil, but it is an absurd statement regardless :) I've sort of wanted to use fossil for a real project of my own, but its own idea of workflows just... puts me off completely. I stick to Git. Git won the minds of developers not because it was first (by far, it wasn't), but because it's better than the rest.
- thfuran 3y ago
  Nah, it won because of GitHub.
  - meepmorp 3y ago
    Basically. I liked mercurial better than git, but GitHub's become the center of gravity for a lot of development.
  - chungy 3y ago
    It won well before GitHub. and I always liked it better than Mercurial too :)
    - thfuran 3y ago
      That's just not true. SVN was more popular than git until several years after GitHub was founded. Mercurial was reasonably popular as well.
      - jdbernard 3y ago
        SVN may have been more widely used, but it was on the way out by the time GitHub was launched. It was the incumbent, at least in communities at the forefront of change. GitHub and integration with Microsoft tools certainly accelerated it's adoption into the enterprise environment, but among the "new VCSs with a future," git had already won.
    - bananapub 3y ago
      ? Github launched in 2008, git was popular then but not the completely dominant thing it is now.
  - aulin 3y ago
    Most big open source projects switched to git way before GitHub existed. It was already popular when they launched and that's the reason they succeeded.
jesseduffield 3y ago
Whoops! I should have fact-checked that: I had it in my head that it was recent based on there being so much recent discussion of it online. I've updated the post

chungy 3y ago

> > Fossil is a recent git alternative > It’s almost as old as git. Fossil has been around since 2006, while git was born in 2005. I'm assuming the author recently discovered fossil, but it is an absurd statement regardless :) I've sort of wanted to use fossil for a real project of my own, but its own idea of workflows just... puts me off completely. I stick to Git. Git won the minds of developers not because it was first (by far, it wasn't), but because it's better than the rest.

thfuran 3y ago
Nah, it won because of GitHub.
- meepmorp 3y ago
  Basically. I liked mercurial better than git, but GitHub's become the center of gravity for a lot of development.
- chungy 3y ago
  It won well before GitHub. and I always liked it better than Mercurial too :)
  - thfuran 3y ago
    That's just not true. SVN was more popular than git until several years after GitHub was founded. Mercurial was reasonably popular as well.
    - jdbernard 3y ago
      SVN may have been more widely used, but it was on the way out by the time GitHub was launched. It was the incumbent, at least in communities at the forefront of change. GitHub and integration with Microsoft tools certainly accelerated it's adoption into the enterprise environment, but among the "new VCSs with a future," git had already won.
  - bananapub 3y ago
    ? Github launched in 2008, git was popular then but not the completely dominant thing it is now.
- aulin 3y ago
  Most big open source projects switched to git way before GitHub existed. It was already popular when they launched and that's the reason they succeeded.

jesseduffield 3y ago

Whoops! I should have fact-checked that: I had it in my head that it was recent based on there being so much recent discussion of it online. I've updated the post