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Fossil (software)

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Not to be confused with FOSSIL or Fossil (file system).
Original author(s)D. Richard Hipp
Initial release2006; 19 years ago (2006)
Stable release
2.25[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 6 November 2024; 5 months ago (6 November 2024)
Repository
Written inC, SQL
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeSoftware configuration management, bug tracking system, wiki software
License2010: BSD-2-Clause[a][2]
2007: GPL-2.0-only[b]
Websitewww.fossil-scm.org Edit this on Wikidata

Fossil is a software configuration management, bug tracking system and wiki software server for use in software development created by D. Richard Hipp.

Features

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The Fossil web interface showing changes to the SQLite source tree

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 blogging.[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]

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

Source code hosting

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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])

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ BSD-2-Clause since 2010-05-16.
  2. ^ GPL-2.0-only from 2007-07-21 until 2010-05-16.

References

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  1. ^ "Fossil: Change Log". 6 November 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  2. ^ Fossil Copyright
  3. ^ "Fossil: A Coherent Software Configuration Management System". www.fossil-scm.org. Retrieved 2025-04-21.
  4. ^ a b Edge, Jake (March 16, 2011). "Version control with Fossil". lwn.net. Archived from the original on 2024-01-16. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
  5. ^ "Fossil: The Fossil Web Interface". www.fossil-scm.org. Retrieved 2025-04-21.
  6. ^ "Fossil: Fossil Concepts: Workflow". www.fossil-scm.org. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
  7. ^ "Integrated version control with Fossil SCM". 5 November 2009., DLR Tech Talk presentation by Arne Bachmann, 2009-12-01
  8. ^ "Fossil DSCM Relicensed with BSD License". 2010-05-16.
  9. ^ "Fossil: Fossil Performance". Fossil-scm.org. 2009-08-23. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
  10. ^ "SQLite: Timeline". sqlite.org.
  11. ^ "Chiselapp.com shutting down". James Turner. 2013-03-28. Retrieved 2013-04-10.
  12. ^ "ChiselApp ChangeOver Complete". Andreas Kupries. 2013-04-30. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
  13. ^ "Example: Free Fossil-SCM Repository Hosting". Retrieved 2015-11-21.

Further reading

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