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<b>Fossil looks like the bug tracker that would be in your
Linksys Router's administration screen.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I take a pragmatic approach to software: form follows functions.
To me, it is more important to have a highly reliable, fast, efficient,
enduring, and simple DVCS than one that looks pretty.</p>
<p>On the other hand, if you have patches that improve the apparance
of Fossil without seriously compromising its reliablity, performance,
an maintainability, I will be happy to accept them. Fossil is
self-hosting. Send me email to request a password that will let
you push to the main fossil repository.</p>
</blockquote>
<b>It would be useful to have a separate application that
keeps the bug-tracking database in a versioned file. That file can
then be pushed and pulled along with the rest repository.</b>
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the massive user base of git or mercurial.
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<b>Fossil looks like the bug tracker that would be in your
Linksys Router's administration screen.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I take a pragmatic approach to software: form follows function.
To me, it is more important to have a reliable, fast, efficient,
enduring, and simple DVCS than one that looks pretty.</p>
<p>On the other hand, if you have patches that improve the apparance
of Fossil without seriously compromising its reliablity, performance,
and/or maintainability, I will be happy to accept them. Fossil is
self-hosting. Send email to request a password that will let
you push to the main fossil repository.</p>
</blockquote>
<b>It would be useful to have a separate application that
keeps the bug-tracking database in a versioned file. That file can
then be pushed and pulled along with the rest repository.</b>
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SQLite database terrifies me.</b>
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The use of SQLite to store the database is likely more stable and secure
than any other approach, due to the fact that SQLite is transactional.
Fossil also implements several internal
<a href="selfcheck.wiki">self-checks</a> to insure that no information
is ever lost. And, indeed, in over a year of operation, there have been
no reports of data loss due to a Fossil malfunction.
</blockquote>
<b>I am dubious of the benefits of including wikis and bug trackers
directly in the VCS - either they are under-featured compared to full
software like Trac, or the VCS is massively bloated compared to
Subversion or Bazaar.</b>
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<p>I have no doubt that Trac has many features that fossil lacks. But that
is not the point. Fossil has several key features that Trac lacks and that
I cannot live without: most notably the fact that
fossil supports disconnected operation.</p>
<p>As for bloat: Fossil is a single self-contained executable.
You do not need any other packages
(diff, patch, merge, cvs, svn, rcs, git, python, perl, tcl, apache,
sqlite, and so forth)
in order to run fossil. Fossil runs just fine in a chroot jail all
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SQLite database terrifies me.</b>
<blockquote>
The use of SQLite to store the database is likely more stable and secure
than any other approach, due to the fact that SQLite is transactional.
Fossil also implements several internal
<a href="selfcheck.wiki">self-checks</a> to insure that no information
is ever lost.
</blockquote>
<b>I am dubious of the benefits of including wikis and bug trackers
directly in the VCS - either they are under-featured compared to full
software like Trac, or the VCS is massively bloated compared to
Subversion or Bazaar.</b>
<blockquote>
<p>I have no doubt that Trac has many features that fossil lacks. But that
is not the point. Fossil has several key features that Trac lacks and that
I need: most notably the fact that
fossil supports disconnected operation.</p>
<p>As for bloat: Fossil is a single self-contained executable.
You do not need any other packages
(diff, patch, merge, cvs, svn, rcs, git, python, perl, tcl, apache,
sqlite, and so forth)
in order to run fossil. Fossil runs just fine in a chroot jail all
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