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Posted 6 months ago

Fossil is fresh breeze

A day after my struggle to integrate Mercurial with Trac & Redmine my friend sent me a link to Fossil and boy! it is a beauty. You just have one file to download (just one executable file) and that’s it you have a DVCS, Wiki, Ticketing & Source Browser working out of the box seamlessly, it is simple & beautiful.

After evaluating it for a day these are a few things I wish Fossil had:

Notifications to users when tickets are added, changed, closed etc.
Ability to attach files to tickets (logs, screen-shots etc).
Way to do things without having to go to the command prompt (IDE integration / Tortoise-FSL like Tortoise-SVN)
Tools to migrate from/to other repositories

Some interesting Fossil links:

http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/qandc.wiki

http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/stats.wiki

http://www.ericsink.com/entries/dbts_fossil.html

…and some interesting other links (if you haven’t clicked the last link above):

tags: #vcs #tech #fossil #scm