I would like to introduce you lovely OpenSource Lovers to a GIT-Alternative called FOSSIL that I also stumbled upon.<br> It’s basically opensource Github-in-a-box which means it’s an SCM with:

  • Bug-tracker
  • Ticketting-system
  • Forum
  • Wiki-system
  • even a Chat-functionality

& It’s also <u>self-hostable</u> & the best part it’s all in ONE STANDALONE FILE!!! how cool is that

However this tool supports a completely different style of development in FOSS called the “Cathedral-Style” whereas GIT suports a “Bazaar-Style”<br> The person behind Fossil is the creator of SQLite, <u>Dr.Richard Hipp</u> & they even made other projects to support Fossil like a PIC-Like language called PikChr

Well here’s a difference between Git vs Fossil & they even have a hosting service called CHISEL

  • FineWineOP
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    18 hours ago

    It doesn’t have remote/server capabilities for one

    • Fushuan [he/him]
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      23 hours ago

      I must be missing whan you mean by remote/server since pull, fetch, push… All interact with remote copies of the repo.

    • @TrickDacy
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      78 hours ago

      Isn’t that by design? I believe the intention was to offload that capability to an existing solution, usually ssh.

      • FineWineOP
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        -16 hours ago

        Yeah & for that we have to deal withe Dependency hell Look at the size of Fossil & compare

        • Fushuan [he/him]
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          13 hours ago

          What? Since when has ssh been a negative? Regardless of VC if you work on remote machines you need SSH, fullstop. I won’t take you seriously if you think otherwise sorry.

        • @TrickDacy
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          13 hours ago

          Not sure what that means. Never once heard of git being a problem or large in size. Further, it’s extremely widely supported.