I would like to introduce you lovely OpenSource Lovers to a GIT-Alternative called FOSSIL that I also stumbled upon because of this Blog.<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
- Has built-in GUI
- Also has a Web-Server
- Self-Hostable like Gitea/Forgejo
& the best part it’s all in ONE STANDALONE FILE!!! which is extremely lightweight which you can copy to your $PATH & works even in crappy internet. 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<br> Well just in case; here’s a list of difference between Git vs Fossil<br> & guess what!! they even have a hosting service called CHISEL
Listen; Just check it out & use it for fun in your spare time even with the flaws it has (& Try out Darcs & Pijul as well)
With that mentality of yours, OpenSource wouldn’t be a thing
and yet it is, despite probably 99.99% of it is managed with git. Pretty funny that you’re accusing me of stifling collaboration for simply stating that easy onboarding is important, and using some oddball system no one has heard of it doesn’t make onboarding easy.
Again this applies to FOSS as a whole & nothing comes close to Oddball-ing as FOSS Back then it was SVN, now it’s Git, what makes you think Fossil or Pijul won’t replace Git ? Trends change & people usually take notice of lesser known things Well there’s another term called “Niche”
It’s easier to just stay on windows & BTW windows is working on their own proprietary VCS so yeah good luck with everything & all
Dude what are you on?
Fossil is 18 years old and I’ve heard of it once now despite being a software dev that whole run lol
A bizarre statement. I’ve only worked in two shops now where windows is used by devs. The reasoning practically every shop I’ve worked in uses mac: windows is a pain to develop on, and the IT department is afraid of supporting linux.
You HAVE to be trolling at this point.