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Of course, we can’t leave out a mention of Fossil here — the SCM system built by and for SQLite.

https://fossil-scm.org/

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I use Fossil for all of my long term projects. It can even import Git repositories if you want to try it out.

Today I was working on a semester paper for a non-technical class. It is versioned in fossil and I have all my miscellaneous ideas, initial outline, and the paper guidelines in the Wiki. The branching also makes much more sense, and I’ve used it for major revisions of the paper or its structure.

Fossil is legitimately awesome, and I lament the fact that Git gained popularity over it.

Fossil is great. Not only is it a full suite of tools associated with the repository (discussions, tickets, wiki) but the tool is a single >10mb binary and can run as a web server (or CGI-like interface) for remote hosting.

The web server that powers fossil was also written by its author! It’s nice that unlike git instaweb you don’t need to install an additional web server just to see a read only view of your commits.

And fossil itself is an SQLite database!

> fossil itself is an SQLite database

Can anyone explain what this means and how it works?

Fossil itself is a C binary, not a database. Maybe they meant that Fossil’s source code is hosted in Fossil, or that Fossil repositories are SQLite files? I don’t exactly know either.

They are talking about this fossil: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

How much does it take advantage of being a DB underneath?

yeah fossil is great, but can fossil import the linux kernel (already working on the next post)

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