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On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 07:08:13PM -0800, Zach Leslie wrote:
> > http://www.fossil-scm.org/
> >=20
> > I'm not fossil user, but it's BSD licensed in written in C.
> > Baptise Daroussin probably could tell us more about fossil pro and cons.
>=20
> This misses one of of the main points raised in the original post. The
> proliferation of git as a revision control system.
>=20
> Also, this particular tool bails out on the unix philosophy, with its web
> gui, ticket tracker etc. Do one thing. Do it well.
>=20
Look at the internal of fossil and how things are done in fossil and you wo=
uld
understand that the last sentence is totally wrong.
Fossil has really nice features that could nicely fits with FreeBSD workflo=
ws
and greatly improves it.
It has most of the new shiny feature everyone can expect from a dvcs, but it
also has it drawbacks:
The converted repositories (I did convert docs, src and ports) with full hi=
story
kept: branches, tags, etc. is huge and the first clone would be painful to =
do.
On the other side you have multiple working copies open on the same clone w=
hich
is really nice.
Some of the operations can be slow, J=F6rg Sonnenberger wrote an analysis a=
bout
this one the fossil wiki, but don't remember the link sorry.
=46rom my testing, apart from the do we really need a new scm question? I a=
m a big
fan of fossil and find it easier and cleaner than all the other scm I know,=
I
use git for pkgng and other projects, I use a lot mercurial on some other a=
rea,
and fossil remains my favorite :). But I really don't think it could fit
FreeBSD's requirements as it is now. but there are lots of room of improvem=
ents.
The learning curve to fossil is probably really easy.
On of the last thing is that fossil lacks keyword expansion.
That said I'm happy with svn on FreeBSD, I still from time to time do conve=
rsion
of out different tree to fossil for fun, but no more and I won't advocate f=
or
any vcs change.
Bapt
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