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Fossil – High-reliability, distributed software configuration management system

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I realize this is returning because of the current events, just for reference, (some of the) previous discussions on HN:

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15752725]

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13668952]

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12673229]

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8697028]

Also, 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17230766

We've been using Fossil for more than 6 years as our primary SCM for more than 30 internal projects.

No problems with it so far. Its easy deployment as well as the ability to run a full SCM with a Web UI from a 3 or 4 MB executable on Windows or Linux is baffling for any new developer who is introduced to it.

How many people do you have working on your projects? We tried fossil a few years ago but it was too barebones to implement our processes.

A dozen at most per project. I must also note that we've built in 2012 a multi-project Web UI over it that proved useful to empower project managers to create their own repositories and manage ACLs (One day we'll probably release that thing since it offers a Github-like experience with Fossil at its core.)

By the way, right now the biggest project Fossil manages for us is a source code for a 15 years old project (still maintained) with a footprint of around 100 MB (source code in C/C#/XML/Bash/Python/BAT, docs, XML config/spec files.)

That web UI will be interesting to many, I'm quite confident - and considering the exodus that's recently happened, people are looking for exactly those kinds of upper-management-friendly interfaces for VCS.

I was just wondering... maybe put a few screenshots on a landing page along with a "coming soon"... could solicit some feedback, and capitalize on the current trend of looking for alternatives.

At work, I really like the fact that the whole program is just one executable I can drop anywhere on my PATH and get to work. The builtin wiki is very nice, too.

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