Operating system | Type Revision control | |
Stable release 4.2.0 / September 27, 2016; 4 months ago (2016-09-27) License Proprietary; free for non-commercial | ||
FishEye is a revision-control browser and search engine owned by Atlassian, Inc. Although FishEye is a commercial product, it is freely available to open source projects and non-profit institutions. In addition to the advanced search and diff capabilities, it provides:
Contents
However it lacks some basic capabilities that exist in other revision-control browsers (e.g. Trac, Redmine) such as being able to compare different revisions of a folder, or compare two folders (such as branches and tags). This is widely seen as a critical omission and vastly reduces Fisheye's usefulness as a tool in managing the software release process.
Use in open-source projects
Atlassian approves free licenses for community and open-source installations under certain conditions. Many major open source projects use FishEye to provide a front-end for the source code repository:
Atlassian and Contegix provide free deployments of FishEye and Crucible for open-source projects. For large developer communities, dedicated instances are available to the public, either self-hosted or provided by the hosting service:
Integration
As of 2010 FishEye supported integration with the following revision control systems:
Due to the resource-based URLs, it is possible to integrate FishEye with different issue and bug tracking systems. It also provides a REST and XML-RPC API. FishEye also integrates with IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA via the Atlassian IDE Connector.