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

Just check it out & use it for fun in your spare time even with the flaws it has (& Try out Darcs & Pijul as well)

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

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

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      8 days ago

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

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        7 days 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.

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          Why do you NEED a new tool like SSH when you can just tinker/upgrade the old & battle-tested one ??

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            1995 is new to you? SSH is useful for way more thing than version control, you should be using it when interacting with remote servers in one way or another.

            You must be trolling. I can’t believe you just said that SSH is NOT the battle tested one. I just looked it up, git released in 2005 and fossil in 2006, it’s the newer tool! So, to your comment, literally no U.

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              I was talking about HTTPS & Compared to it SSH is new & I guess calling someone a troll is a knee-jerk reaction these days inorder to avoid scrutiny

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                HTTPS has way too much bloat for it to be relevant where SSH is used. Its a protocol to send hypertext in a secure way, SSH is a secure shell. Saying that we should use https out of all tools as a SSH replacement is wild.

                I call you a troll because is my kindest way to say that these opinions that you have are so out of touch with development since more than 30 years that your opinions are just wrong and you are saying them with such conviction that either you are intentionally misleading others for laughs (a troll) or it’s a worse alternative. Yeah I was avoiding having to scrutinize your inability to recognize how the programming world has evolved in the last 30 years. Hell, mobile phones didn’t really exist 30 years ago!

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        7 days ago

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

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        7 days ago

        Do you live in a world where storage is expensive or rare? Because I more or less forgot the meaning of deleting files.

        Also git does support the git protocol as a server if you really need it.

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          The last time I checked Just because storage is cheap doesn’t give you the excuse to create unomptimized garbage All GIT does is versioning, Fossil comparitively has more features that Git should have but doesn’t

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              What are these “Valid Critiques” ? You don’t mean “Why should I try out Fossil when I’m used to Git”

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                I use plane for my personal project ticketing and git is built into all my IDE. Why make it harder because of a random Foss project with opinions.