It’s almost as old as git. Fossil has been around since 2006, while git was born in 2005.
> Merge conflicts aren’t first class
Another DVCS where conflicts are first class is Pijul. It also has a solid theoretical foundation, which it inherited (and expanded upon) from its predecessor, Darcs.
> It’s almost as old as git. Fossil has been around since 2006, while git was born in 2005.
I'm assuming the author recently discovered fossil, but it is an absurd statement regardless :)
I've sort of wanted to use fossil for a real project of my own, but its own idea of workflows just... puts me off completely. I stick to Git. Git won the minds of developers not because it was first (by far, it wasn't), but because it's better than the rest.