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)

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

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

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      21 days ago

      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.

      • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
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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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        21 days ago

        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.