Software:Fossil

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Short description: Software configuration management, bug tracking system and wiki server
Fossil
Fossil SCM logo.svg
Original author(s)D. Richard Hipp
Initial release2006; 18 years ago (2006)
Written inC, SQL
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeSoftware configuration management, bug tracking system, wiki software
License2010: BSD-2-Clause[lower-alpha 1][1]
2007: GPL-2.0-only[lower-alpha 2]

Fossil is a software configuration management, bug tracking system and wiki software server for use in software development created by D. Richard Hipp.

Features

Fossil is a cross-platform DVCS that runs on Linux, BSD derivatives, Mac and Windows. It is capable of performing distributed version control, bug tracking, wiki services, and blogging. 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.

Being distributed, Fossil requires no central server, although collaboration is made easier by using one.

Content is stored using a SQLite database so that transactions are atomic even if interrupted by a power loss or system crash.[2]

Fossil is free software released under a BSD license[3] (relicensed from previously GPL).

Adoption

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.[4][5]

Some examples of other projects using Fossil are:

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.[6] After domain ownership was transferred on May 1, 2013, it continued operation.[7]
  • SourceForge (unofficially through webpages hosting service[8])

See also

  • Comparison of revision control software
  • List of revision control software

Notes

  1. ↑ BSD-2-Clause since 2010-05-16.
  2. ↑ GPL-2.0-only from 2007-07-21 until 2010-05-16.

References

  1. ↑ Fossil Copyright
  2. ↑ "Integrated version control with Fossil SCM". 5 November 2009. http://www.slideshare.net/Ashberk/integrated-version-control-with-fossil-scm. , DLR Tech Talk presentation by Arne Bachmann, 2009-12-01
  3. ↑ "Fossil DSCM Relicensed with BSD License.". 2010-05-16. http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/artifact/c7dd1de9f9539a5a859c2b41fe4560604a774476. 
  4. ↑ "Fossil: Fossil Performance". Fossil-scm.org. 2009-08-23. http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/stats.wiki. 
  5. ↑ "SQLite: Timeline". sqlite.org. https://www.sqlite.org/src/timeline?c=2009-08-12+11:45:41. 
  6. ↑ "Chiselapp.com shutting down". James Turner. 2013-03-28. http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/msg11540.html. 
  7. ↑ "ChiselApp ChangeOver Complete". Andreas Kupries. 2013-04-30. http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/msg11672.html. 
  8. ↑ "Example: Free Fossil-SCM Repository Hosting". http://fossilrepos.sourceforge.net. 

Further reading

External links




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