"SCM" can stand for different words, depending who's uttering it, but where fossil stands is this: it fills the same role as git or mercurial. Its a DSCM (which

"SCM" can stand for different words, depending who's uttering it, but where fossil stands is this: it fills the same role as git or mercurial. Its a DSCM (which I read as "distributed source control management"). Fill out the acronym as you see fit. Edit: typo, grammar