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.

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