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Fossil (software)
Software configuration management, bug tracking system and wiki server From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fossil is a software configuration management, bug tracking system and wiki software server for use in software development created by D. Richard Hipp.
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Features
Fossil is a cross-platform distributed version control system that runs on Linux, BSD derivatives, Mac and Windows. It is capable of performing distributed version control, bug tracking, wiki services, and documentation.[3][4]
The software has a built-in web interface, which reduces project tracking complexity and promotes situational awareness. A user may simply type "fossil ui" from within any check-out and Fossil automatically opens the user's web browser to display a page giving detailed history and status information on that project. The fossil executable may be run as a standalone HTTP server, as a CGI application, accessed via SSH, or run interactively from the CLI.[5]
To simplify centralized development, Fossil provides an "autosync" mode to automatically sync changes when commits are made, in a similar manner to centralized version control systems.[4][6]
Content is stored using a SQLite database so that transactions are atomic even if interrupted by a power loss or system crash.[7]
Fossil is free software released under a BSD license (relicensed from previously GPL).[8]
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Adoption
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Fossil is used for version control by the SQLite project, which is itself a component of Fossil. SQLite transitioned to using Fossil for version control over CVS on 2009-08-12.[9][10]
Some examples of other projects using Fossil are:
- Tcl/Tk Project
- Pikchr
- MySQL++, a C++ wrapper for the MySQL and MariaDB C APIs
- LuaSQLite3
- libfossil
- fnc, the ncurses-based Fossil UI experience in the terminal
- Androwish, the Tcl implementation for Android
- ObjFW, a cross-platform Objective-C runtime and framework
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Source code hosting
The following websites provide free source code hosting for Fossil repositories:
- Chisel. Original site owner James Turner announced that the site would cease operation on May 1, 2013.[11] After domain ownership was transferred on May 1, 2013, it continued operation.[12]
- SourceForge (unofficially through webpages hosting service[13])
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