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Didn't know about fossil. It's unfortunate many people are saying they stopped reading at the "fossil is everything into one" part because It still looks an int
by RakutenSatori 3y ago
Didn't know about fossil. It's unfortunate many people are saying they stopped reading at the "fossil is everything into one" part because It still looks an interesting way of doing vcs.
> 95% of the code in SQLite comes from just four programmers, and 64% of it is from the lead developer alone. The SQLite developers know each other well and interact daily. Fossil was designed for this development model.
They propose it as a way to do development with few members who all know each other, rather than making an open repository for anyone on the Internet to contribute.
I want to try it now and see what does it bring on the table and whether it's a viable alternative to git in this regard.
- fmajid 3y agoI haven’t used Fossil but I have used gittrac, cvstrac in git mode. Cvstrac was what SQLite used before fossil, basically wiki and issue tracker built on top of SQLite, just add CVS, SVN or Git. A very small system compared to Gitea or other forges, but incredibly powerful thanks to SQL and very productive. Fossil is just the logical continuation and shares the same clarity of design and elegant implementation of SQLite.
- RakutenSatori 3y agoCan fossil be better than git for a solo personal project or does it add too much stuff on top that's useful once you have a few people working together and it's much simpler to just git commit?
- fmajid 3y agoI suspect it will work better, but you have to convince all the other collaborators to also switch, as well as lose tooling in say, Xcode.
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