Original author(s) Operating system | Written in C | |
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Initial release 2006; 11 years ago (2006) Stable release 2.1 / 10 March 2017; 5 days ago (2017-03-10) Repository www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/dir?ci=tip | ||
Fossil is a distributed version control system, bug tracking system and wiki software server for use in software development created by D. Richard Hipp.
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Features
Fossil is a cross-platform server 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 in a page that gives detailed history and status information on that project.
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.
Fossil is free software released under a BSD license (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 in September 2009.
Some examples of other projects using Fossil are:
Source code hosting
The following websites provide free source code hosting for Fossil repositories: