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Fossil is a distributed version control and ticket tracking system
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created by D. Richard Hipp, the primary author of SQLite.
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Features:
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- Tamper-proof artifact record
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- Simple command-line interface
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- Customizable web interface with JSON, RSS, CGI, wiki, chat, and forum
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- Online project documentation with full-text search capability
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- Integrated PIC-like markup language for creating diagrams
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- Online activity and ticket reports
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- User accounts with access controls
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- Coherent versioning across all files
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- Straightforward branching and merging
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- Bisect searches to pinpoint behavior changes
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- SHA3-256 and hardened SHA1 checksums
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- FUSE filesystem makes all historical and branch revisions available
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- Synchronization via http, https, ssh, and local/network filesystems
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- Automated replication and backup
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- Git import/export and Subversion/CVS import
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- Nested checkouts to share common subtrees across related projects
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- Checkout directory not cluttered with administrative files
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- Support for Docker
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- Unversioned file area for builds, statistics, other ephemeral content
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- Optional PGP signing of commits
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- Users can subscribe to email alerts to be notified of events
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- Private branches which are excluded from syncs until published
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- Bundles group a change set (e.g. a private branch) into a single file
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- Users can make their own repositories, no need for special privileges
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- Works in Windows as well as Linux and other Unix-like systems
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Fossil can host an entire project development website, including the
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download area, but it also can be used for individual projects with no
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need for a shared server.
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In addition to typical software development operations, one interesting
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application is coordination and auditing of /etc and other configuration
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files across a network of computers.
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Content is stored in an SQLite database for atomicity, durability, and
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effortless administration.
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See Fossil in action online:
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- https://fossil-scm.org/ - Fossil hosts its own development
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- https://sqlite.org/src/ - Fossil originally created to manage SQLite
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- https://core.tcl.tk/tcl/timeline?y=ci - Tcl/Tk migrated from CVS
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- https://chiselapp.com/ - Free public hosting for Fossil projects
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Key technical points:
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- Unified revision history tree spans the entire repository
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- Repository is a collection of artifacts identified by their checksums
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- Artifacts are broadly grouped into content and structural artifacts
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- Each check-in is tracked as a structural artifact known as a manifest
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- Manifests primarily list the full names and checksums of each file
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- Manifests can be amended by subsequent control artifacts
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- In most cases, symbolic names refer to the latest matching check-in
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- Branches are implemented using propagating symbolic tags
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This SlackBuild script installs not only release versions of Fossil but
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also arbitrary development versions. If the current directory contains
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a file named "fossil-src.tar.gz", it is used as the source archive, and
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the check-in timestamp is used as the version string. For example, the
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package name could be "fossil-20200320T040201-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz".
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To download the latest trunk development version of Fossil, type:
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$ wget https://fossil-scm.org/home/tarball/fossil-src.tar.gz
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To download a specific version of Fossil, type:
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$ wget https://fossil-scm.org/home/tarball/$VERSION/fossil-src.tar.gz
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For more information about the allowable $VERSION formats, see:
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https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/checkin_names.wiki
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