Fossil SCM

#1

Post by Tomte » Fri, Feb 17, 2017, 3:43 PM UTC

Fossil SCM
fossil-scm.org

Re: Fossil SCM

#2

Post by pestaa » Fri, Feb 17, 2017, 4:14 PM UTC

GitLab contributors, please take note.

Fossil's UI is very fast and the navigation is intuitive and discoverable.

I know it's on the roadmap, but it is so often an afterthought.

Re: Fossil SCM

#3

Post by jjirsa » Fri, Feb 17, 2017, 4:22 PM UTC

No/manual rebase sounds awful

Re: Fossil SCM

#4

Post by oblio » Fri, Feb 17, 2017, 4:22 PM UTC

My god, they've updated the CSS. It used to be quite a bit uglier. Now it's not GitHub, but it's definitely lighter on the eyes.

Nice to see - I think that good tools should have UIs that at least come close to the quality of their engineering.

Re: Fossil SCM

#5

Post by cmrx64 » Fri, Feb 17, 2017, 4:28 PM UTC

Fossil is the SCM I always wish I were using, but for the benefit of external collaborators, I stick with Git and GitLab (previously, GitHub). Fossil is a lovely, small piece of software that does exactly what I want in a nice and simple way. It's fast and uses SQLite for everything, making it easy to programmatically extend it and munge its internal data.

Re: Fossil SCM

#6

Post by maxpert » Fri, Feb 17, 2017, 4:30 PM UTC

It's good to see so many SCM systems showing up. But it makes me wonder how many of them can actually work on GBs of codebase with over 1000 of programmers checking in on daily basis. I my experience most of SCMs are fine for small to medium projects, but they go down with crawling speeds and sometimes even not working at all when it goes large scale.

Re: Fossil SCM

#7

Post by X86BSD » Fri, Feb 17, 2017, 4:31 PM UTC

I absolutely love Fossil. And the author is a great guy! It never gets the press or usage it deserves. Glad to see this come up on HN!

Re: Fossil SCM

#8

Post by wirrbel » Fri, Feb 17, 2017, 4:32 PM UTC

Anyone using it for development? What is your experience?

Re: Fossil SCM

#9

Post by hubert123 » Fri, Feb 17, 2017, 4:32 PM UTC

I dont see the point of Fossil, I looked into it. The commands arent that much easier to understand. If I'm using an SCM anyway and I still need to use a cmd line and I still need to memorize commands then I might just as well use git. And Git has Guis now.

Re: Fossil SCM

#10

Post by maxpert » Fri, Feb 17, 2017, 4:32 PM UTC

cmrx64 wrote: post #5

Fossil is the SCM I always wish I were using, but for the benefit of external collaborators, I stick with Git and GitLab (previously, GitHub). Fossil is a lovely, small piece of software that does exactly what I want in a nice and simple way. It's fast and uses SQLite for everything, making it easy to programmatically extend it and munge its internal data.

SQLite usage makes me wonder how will it behave over time with millions of commits. Also makes me wonder how will it handle distribution.