Fossil (software)

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Not to be confused with FOSSIL or Fossil (file system).
Fossil
Original authorD. Richard Hipp
Initial release2006; 20 years ago (2006)
Repository
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Written inC, SQL
Engine
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    Operating systemCross-platform
    TypeSoftware configuration management, bug tracking system, wiki software
    License2010: BSD-2-Clause[a][1]
    2007: GPL-2.0-only[b]

    Fossil is a software configuration management, bug tracking system and wiki software server for use in software development created by D. Richard Hipp.

    Features

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    File:Fossil-web-timeline.png
    The Fossil web interface showing changes to the SQLite source tree

    Fossil is a cross-platform distributed version control system that runs on Linux, BSD derivatives, Mac and Windows. It is capable of performing distributed version control, bug tracking, wiki services, and documentation.[2][3]

    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 to display a page giving detailed history and status information on that project. The fossil executable may be run as a standalone HTTP server, as a CGI application, accessed via SSH, or run interactively from the CLI.[4]

    To simplify centralized development, Fossil provides an "autosync" mode to automatically sync changes when commits are made, in a similar manner to centralized version control systems.[3][5]

    Content is stored using a SQLite database so that transactions are atomic even if interrupted by a power loss or system crash.[6]

    Fossil is free software released under a BSD license (relicensed from previously GPL).[7]

    Adoption

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    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 on 2009-08-12.[8][9]

    Some examples of other projects using Fossil are:

    • Tcl/Tk Project
    • Pikchr
    • MySQL++, a C++ wrapper for the MySQL and MariaDB C APIs
    • LuaSQLite3
    • libfossil
    • fnc, the ncurses-based Fossil UI experience in the terminal
    • Androwish, the Tcl implementation for Android

    Source code hosting

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    The following websites provide free source code hosting for Fossil repositories:

    • Chisel. Original site owner James Turner announced that the site would cease operation on May 1, 2013.[10] After domain ownership was transferred on May 1, 2013, it continued operation.[11]
    • SourceForge (unofficially through webpages hosting service[12])

    See also

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    Notes

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    1. ^ BSD-2-Clause since 2010-05-16.
    2. ^ GPL-2.0-only from 2007-07-21 until 2010-05-16.

    References

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    1. ^ Fossil Copyright
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    6. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., DLR Tech Talk presentation by Arne Bachmann, 2009-12-01
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    Further reading

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    • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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    • Lua error in Module:Official_website at line 94: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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