----------------------------------- btiffin Tue Dec 28, 2010 2:48 am Fossil SCM ----------------------------------- In my humble opinion, a wicked cool tool. Dr Hipp, the man behind SQLite, is working on Fossil, a source code management system. Ala hg/git, distributed, but with the addition of git-hub lite in a single executable. Wiki, tickets, and docs in the repo. Nice. http://www.fossil-scm.org Nice clean C code, builds into one exe (which includes TH1 a TCL derivative for controlling the ticket system). fossil repos are also single files. Management is a breeze. Dr. Hipp really does understand simple. The default self-hosting feature is a two line CGI fossil server . feature or stash subcommand, but if you race to the site today, snag the copy from 12-07. The cut from 12-21 has a small typo bug in the SQL used to access artifacts.) [code] [btiffin@home ~]$ fossil help Usage: fossil help COMMAND. Available COMMANDs: add close http reconstruct status addremove co import redo sync all commit info remote-url tag annotate configuration init rename ticket artifact deconstruct leaves revert timeline bisect delete ls rm ui branch descendants merge scrub undo cgi diff mv search unset changes export new server update checkout extras open settings user ci finfo pull sha1sum version clean gdiff push sqlite3 wiki clone help rebuild stash zip This is fossil version [09fc7be1f0] 2010-12-21 13:56:05 UTC [/code] Cheers ----------------------------------- Tony Tue Dec 28, 2010 2:58 am RE:Fossil SCM ----------------------------------- Interesting, they describe themselves as "software configuration management", instead of "source code management system". If there is no integration between the checked in source code (or configuration files?) and blogs / wikis / whatever, then most of it sounds like an insane level of a feature creep. ----------------------------------- btiffin Tue Dec 28, 2010 10:27 pm Re: Fossil SCM ----------------------------------- Gee Tony, are you going to make me defend my fanboy-ness? Ok, here goes. :) From wikipedia: In software engineering, software configuration management (SCM) is the task of tracking and controlling changes in the software. Configuration management practices include revision control and the establishment of baselines. which is where Fossil really shines in my opinion. Fossil is not just a distributed revision control system. It includes a wiki, ticket tracker and embedded documentation, all in a single repository, managed from a single executable. Not bloated, but just the right amount of project management in the source control system. This is not feature creep in my humble. Dr. Hipp seems to work towards providing simple tools that allow flexible ways of creating sophisticated software. BUT there are caveats to that. Don't try and run Google as a fossil, it won't scale. Just as SQLite itself has limitations and is not the end-all-be-all database. It IS, when appropriate, a good-for-this-job database. Fossil is (for the projects I'm working on) a great-for-this-job SCM. When our development team hits 100 coders, I'll probably suggest a different tool. For now it's a sweet spot. BUT on the BUT... who here creates websites that attract thousands of hits a day? Or have to manage more than a few dozen busy programmers? And yes, I know to whom I am speaking...don't try and recode compsci.ca as a fossil, it'd be FAIL on the scale of EPIC :) For normal day to day living, I'll still suggest that most compsci.ca readers give it a try. Think github in a box you can carry home. Cheers