I would like to introduce you lovely OpenSource Lovers to a GIT-Alternative called FOSSIL that I also stumbled upon because of this Blog.<br> 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”<br> The person behind Fossil is the creator of SQLite, <u>Dr.Richard Hipp</u> & they even made other projects to support Fossil like a PIC-Like language called PikChr<br> Well just in case; here’s a list of difference between Git vs Fossil<br> & 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)

    • Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      18 days ago

      Seems like a historic artefact to me as well. And one of their mentioned points was “no sync via http” which even for 2006 makes me… hesitant.

      And their history section ends in 2007, couldn’t find a feature comparison in their quick start guide.

    • kingthrillgore@lemmy.ml
      21·
      18 days ago

      Git is far from user friendly but that’s a design consideration from a decentralized architecture. Fossil will have the same considerations. People need to learn how to use Git.

      The problem is there’s only one person who really knows how to use it: Linus.

      • silasmariner@programming.dev
        2·
        18 days ago

        I remember Linus saying in an interview that he’d only really been involved in git for the first 6 months or so and that the other devs had managed it without him since then. This makes sense - Linus’s creations aren’t successful because he’s the only person who understands them, they’re successful because there are so many other collaborators on them.

      • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
        21·
        18 days ago

        I’m so fuckin tired of hearing x is user unfriendly, it’s not intuitive enough.

        Like fuckin yeah. Sometimes you have to actually learn something new to use something new when I first started driving it wasn’t user friendly. I had to learn how to do it

        • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          18 days ago

          git is exactly as unfriendly as a distributed source control system that doesn’t shy away from power user commands needs to be

          … sure it’s difficult to comprehend, but yknow what’s worse? getting into a bullshit situation and having broken garbage repos in every other “user friendly” system on the planet

        • Parodper@foros.fediverso.galgalego
          1·
          17 days ago

          Nah, git has a bad command line UX. Which is why the developers are working to make it better, i.e. moving from checkout to switch.