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)

    • Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      21 days ago

      Seems like a historic artefact to me as well. And one of their mentioned points was “no sync via http” which even for 2006 makes me… hesitant.

      And their history section ends in 2007, couldn’t find a feature comparison in their quick start guide.

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      Git is far from user friendly but that’s a design consideration from a decentralized architecture. Fossil will have the same considerations. People need to learn how to use Git.

      The problem is there’s only one person who really knows how to use it: Linus.

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        I’m so fuckin tired of hearing x is user unfriendly, it’s not intuitive enough.

        Like fuckin yeah. Sometimes you have to actually learn something new to use something new when I first started driving it wasn’t user friendly. I had to learn how to do it

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        does he? i was under the impression that linus considers it just as stupid as everybody else and its existence is somewhat unsettlingly like a separate organism that lives in our collective brain activity…

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

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

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            21 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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            21 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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            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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        21 days ago

        I must be missing whan you mean by remote/server since pull, fetch, push… All interact with remote copies of the repo.