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> All that Fossil offers is some extra porcelain over its storage layer...

Well... the tickets are things that live in the repository like a commit, so can reference other entries, and are referenceable by other entries, in a first class way, so it’s a “simple matter of programming” for git in the dismissive sense.

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These features are possible right now on the backend of git to be implemented. There's nothing blocking git to add these things. What git would need is a front-end (remember, the cli is a frontend) to implement these.

Don't get me wrong, I do agree fossil is adding some new cards to the table. I just think it would be better implemented as extensions to git than a new system made from scratch.

Yep, this is completely possible to implement in git. Fossil has it built-in already, that's good.

For anyone who wants to see what's possible using low level git tools: https://github.com/google/git-appraise

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