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I wish it supported AJAX and the client UI was decoupled from the repository.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean with "client UI being decoupled from the repository". Wouldn't everything you do in an SCM necessarily be coupled to a repository?

If you have multiple repositories, you have to set up the UI and ticketing setup in each one individually. (Although you can share a login database.)

I don't know if it's been fixed by now, but back when I was using Fossil regularly there were long-standing bugs where pushing the UI and ticket configuration from one repo to another didn't work properly, so synchronising look and feel across multiple repositories was hard.

Some parts of the UI do use AJAX -- the tree-style file browser, for example.

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