Fossil (software)

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Features

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The Fossil web interface showing changes to the SQLite source tree

Fossil is a cross-platform distributed version control system that runs on Linux, BSD derivatives, Mac and Windows. It is capable of performing distributed version control, bug tracking, wiki services, and documentation.[1][2]

The software has a built-in web interface, which reduces project tracking complexity and promotes situational awareness. A user may simply type "fossil ui" from within any check-out and Fossil automatically opens the user's web browser to display a page giving detailed history and status information on that project. The fossil executable may be run as a standalone HTTP server, as a CGI application, accessed via SSH, or run interactively from the CLI.[3]

To simplify centralized development, Fossil provides an "autosync" mode to automatically sync changes when commits are made, in a similar manner to centralized version control systems.[2][4]

Content is stored using a SQLite database so that transactions are atomic even if interrupted by a power loss or system crash.[5]

Fossil is free software released under a BSD license (relicensed from previously GPL).[6]

Adoption

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Fossil is used for version control by the SQLite project, which is itself a component of Fossil. SQLite transitioned to using Fossil for version control over CVS on 2009-08-12.[7][8]

Some examples of other projects using Fossil are:

  • Tcl/Tk Project
  • Pikchr
  • MySQL++, a C++ wrapper for the MySQL and MariaDB C APIs
  • LuaSQLite3
  • libfossil
  • fnc, the ncurses-based Fossil UI experience in the terminal
  • Androwish, the Tcl implementation for Android
  • ObjFW, a cross-platform Objective-C runtime and framework

Source code hosting

The following websites provide free source code hosting for Fossil repositories:

  • Chisel. Original site owner James Turner announced that the site would cease operation on May 1, 2013.[9] After domain ownership was transferred on May 1, 2013, it continued operation.[10]
  • SourceForge (unofficially through webpages hosting service[11])

See also

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Notes

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References

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Further reading

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External links

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