<title>What People Are Saying</title>
The following are collected quotes from various forums and blogs about
Fossil, Git, and DVCSes in general. This collection is put together
by the creator of Fossil, so of course there is selection bias...
<h2>On The Usability Of Git:</h2>
<ol>
<li>Git approaches the useability of iptables, which is to say, utterly
unusable unless you have the manpage tattooed on you arm.
<blockquote>
<i>by mml at [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1433387]</i>
</blockquote>
<li><nowiki>It's simplest to think of the state of your [git] repository
as a point in a high-dimensional "code-space", in which branches are
represented as n-dimensional membranes, mapping the spatial loci of
successive commits onto the projected manifold of each cloned
repository.</nowiki>
<blockquote>
<i>At [http://tartley.com/?p=1267]</i>
</blockquote>
<li>We've been using git and github for a few months now, and it's not
intuitive... I'm hoping someone will make a set of standard wrappers/GUI
for making git bearable.
<blockquote>
<i>maro at [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1433387]</i>
</blockquote>
</ol>
<h2>On The Usability Of Fossil:</h2>
<ol>
<li value=4>
Fossil mesmerizes me with simplicity especially after I struggled to
get a bug-tracking system to work with mercurial.
<blockquote>
<i>rawjeev at [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/156322/what-do-people-think-of-the-fossil-dvcs]</i>
</blockquote>
<li>Fossil is awesome!!! I have never seen an app like that before,
such simplicity and flexibility!!!
<blockquote>
<i>zengr at [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/138621/best-version-control-for-lone-developer]</i>
</blockquote>
</ol>
<h2>On Git Versus Fossil</h2>
<ol>
<li value=6>
Just want to say thanks for fossil making my life easier....
Also [for] not having a misanthropic command line interface.
<blockquote>
<i>Joshua Paine at [http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/msg02736.html]</i>
</blockquote>
<li>We use it at a large university to manage code that small teams write.
The runs everywhere, ease of installation and portability is something that
seems to be a good fit with the environment we have (highly ditrobuted,
sometimes very restrictive firewalls, OSX/Win/Linux). We are happy with it
and teaching a Msc/Phd student (read complete novice) fossil has just
been a smoother ride than Git was.
<blockquote>
<i>viablepanic at [http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bxcto/why_not_fossil_scm/]</i>
</blockquote>
</ol>