Fossil (software)
| Original author | D. Richard Hipp |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2006; 19 years ago (2006) |
| Stable release | |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C, SQL |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Software configuration management, bug tracking system, wiki software |
| License | 2010: BSD-2-Clause [a] [2] 2007: GPL-2.0-only [b] |
| Website | www |
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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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.[3] [4]
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.[5]
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.[4] [6]
Content is stored using a SQLite database so that transactions are atomic even if interrupted by a power loss or system crash.[7]
Fossil is free software released under a BSD license (relicensed from previously GPL).[8]
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年08月12日.[9] [10]
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
[edit ]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.[11] After domain ownership was transferred on May 1, 2013, it continued operation.[12]
- SourceForge (unofficially through webpages hosting service[13] )
See also
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[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ "Changes for version 2.26".
- ^ Fossil Copyright
- ^ "Fossil: A Coherent Software Configuration Management System". www.fossil-scm.org. Retrieved 2025年04月21日.
- ^ a b Edge, Jake (March 16, 2011). "Version control with Fossil". lwn.net. Archived from the original on 2024年01月16日. Retrieved 2025年04月22日.
- ^ "Fossil: The Fossil Web Interface". www.fossil-scm.org. Retrieved 2025年04月21日.
- ^ "Fossil: Fossil Concepts: Workflow". www.fossil-scm.org. Retrieved 2025年04月22日.
- ^ "Integrated version control with Fossil SCM". 5 November 2009., DLR Tech Talk presentation by Arne Bachmann, 2009年12月01日
- ^ "Fossil DSCM Relicensed with BSD License". 2010年05月16日.
- ^ "Fossil: Fossil Performance". Fossil-scm.org. 2009年08月23日. Retrieved 2009年09月12日.
- ^ "SQLite: Timeline". sqlite.org.
- ^ "Chiselapp.com shutting down". James Turner. 2013年03月28日. Retrieved 2013年04月10日.
- ^ "ChiselApp ChangeOver Complete". Andreas Kupries. 2013年04月30日. Retrieved 2013年05月01日.
- ^ "Example: Free Fossil-SCM Repository Hosting" . Retrieved 2015年11月21日.
Further reading
[edit ]- Schimpf, Jim (March 2013). Fossil Version Control - A Users Guide (PDF) (2.0 ed.). Retrieved 11 November 2013.
