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Fossil's opinion on this is that history is an immutable record of project history. It may be messy and unfortunate at times, but it is what happened, and it shouldn't be altered in place any more than you'd do that with an accounts ledger.

In extremis, Fossil offers the "shun" command to remove improperly-committed artifacts, but even then it's subject to a lot of restrictions. (https://fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/shunning.wiki)

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> Fossil's opinion

Tools don't have opinions, people do. Fossil is just inflexible.

You don't want to alter history? Don't do it then. Git supports not altering history just fine.

I can't control what other users of the repo are doing, so it's not that simple.

If you are their superior, other users disregarding your orders is s social problem, not a technical one. If you aren't, it's a good thing they are able not to do what you want.

Tools being more flexible is strictly a good thing. If they are misused, the person that misused them is responsible. It is that simple.

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