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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by MITM0 to c/[email protected]
 

I would like to introduce you lovely OpenSource Lovers to a GIT-Alternative called FOSSIL that I also stumbled upon because of this Blog. It's basically opensource Github-in-a-box which means it's an SCM with:

  • Bug-tracker
  • Ticketting-system
  • Forum
  • Wiki-system
  • even a Chat-functionality
  • Has built-in GUI
  • Also has a Web-Server
  • Self-Hostable like Gitea/Forgejo

& the best part it's all in ONE STANDALONE FILE!!! which is extremely lightweight which you can copy to your $PATH & works even in crappy internet. how cool is that!!

However this tool supports a completely different style of development in FOSS called the "Cathedral-Style" whereas GIT suports a "Bazaar-Style" The person behind Fossil is the creator of SQLite, Dr.Richard Hipp & they even made other projects to support Fossil like a PIC-Like language called PikChr Well just in case; here's a list of difference between Git vs Fossil & guess what!! they even have a hosting service called CHISEL

Listen; Just check it out & use it for fun in your spare time even with the flaws it has (& Try out Darcs & Pijul as well)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Why should git have a mediocre ticketing system instead of getting out of the way of dedicated ticketing systems?

Small personal projects just need a text file with a Todo list, large organisations might need something super heavy weight like Jira. If your VCS has a ticketing system it's going to be dead weight for a large chunk of users, because there's no one-size fits all solution.

[–] MITM0 -4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why shouldn't git have one ? Why not avoid the bloat & Fossil was specifically made for get this small-medium size teams which can be scaled to bigger ones

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I don't think you understand what the word bloat means.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] MITM0 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Now do that without the markdown file

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] MITM0 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Now do that without a text file

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] MITM0 2 points 1 week ago

This is funny, NGL