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
    3·
    1 year ago

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

    • ZeroOne@lemmy.worldOP
      14·
      1 year ago

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

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 year ago

        Not sure what that means. Never once heard of git being a problem or large in size. Further, it’s extremely widely supported.

      • weker01@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 year 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.

        • ZeroOne@lemmy.worldOP
          14·
          1 year ago

          The last time I checked Just because storage is cheap (it’s not where I live) doesn’t give you the excuse to create/use unomptimized garbage<br> All GIT does is versioning (which is Fine), Fossil comparitively has more features that GIT should have but doesn’t (like a “Sync all” repos)

            • ZeroOne@lemmy.worldOP
              13·
              1 year ago

              What are these “Valid Critiques” ? You don’t mean “Why should I try out Fossil when I’m used to Git”

              • AustralianSimon@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                I use plane for my personal project ticketing and git is built into all my IDE. Why make it harder because of a random Foss project with opinions.