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Fossil is a software configuration management, bug tracking system and wiki software server for use in software development created by D. Richard Hipp.
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Original author(s) | D. Richard Hipp |
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Initial release | 2006 |
Stable release | 2.24[1] ![]() |
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Written in | C, SQL |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Software configuration management, bug tracking system, wiki software |
License | 2010: BSD-2-Clause[a][2] 2007: GPL-2.0-only[b] |
Website | www![]() |
Features
editFossil 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.[3]
Fossil is free software released under a BSD license[4] (relicensed from previously GPL).
Adoption
editFossil 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.[5][6]
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
editThe 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.[7] After domain ownership was transferred on May 1, 2013, it continued operation.[8]
- SourceForge (unofficially through webpages hosting service[9])
See also
editNotes
editReferences
edit- ^ https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/changes.wiki#v2_24.
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(help) - ^ Fossil Copyright
- ^ "Integrated version control with Fossil SCM". 5 November 2009., DLR Tech Talk presentation by Arne Bachmann, 2009-12-01
- ^ "Fossil DSCM Relicensed with BSD License". 2010-05-16.
- ^ "Fossil: Fossil Performance". Fossil-scm.org. 2009-08-23. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
- ^ "SQLite: Timeline". sqlite.org.
- ^ "Chiselapp.com shutting down". James Turner. 2013-03-28. Retrieved 2013-04-10.
- ^ "ChiselApp ChangeOver Complete". Andreas Kupries. 2013-04-30. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
- ^ "Example: Free Fossil-SCM Repository Hosting". Retrieved 2015-11-21.
Further reading
edit- Schimpf, Jim (March 2013). Fossil Version Control - A Users Guide (PDF) (2.0 ed.). Retrieved 11 November 2013.