Fossil (software)
Introduction '''Fossil''' is a software configuration management, bug tracking system and wiki software server for use in software development created by D. Richard Hipp.
Features Fossil is a cross-platform DVCS that runs on Linux, BSD derivatives, Mac and Windows. It is capable of performing distributed version control, bug tracking, wiki services, and blogging. The software has a built-in web interface, which reduces project tracking complexity and promotes situational awareness. A user may simply type "fossil ui" from within any check-out and Fossil automatically opens the user's web browser to display a page giving detailed history and status information on that project. The fossil executable may be run as a standalone HTTP server, as a CGI application, accessed via SSH, or run interactively from the CLI.Being distributed, Fossil requires no central server, although collaboration is made easier by using one.Content is stored using a SQLite database so that transactions are atomic even if interrupted by a power loss or system crash.Fossil is free software released under a BSD license (relicensed from previously GPL).
Adoption Fossil is used for version control by the SQLite project, which is itself a component of Fossil. SQLite transitioned to using Fossil for version control over CVS on 2009-08-12.Some examples of other projects using Fossil are:* Tcl/Tk Project* Pikchr*  MySQL++, a C++ wrapper for the MySQL and MariaDB C APIs*  LuaSQLite3*  libfossil*  fnc, the ncurses-based Fossil UI experience in the terminal * Androwish, the Tcl implementation for Android
Source code hosting The following websites provide free source code hosting for Fossil repositories:* Chisel. Original site owner James Turner announced that the site would cease operation on May 1, 2013.After domain ownership was transferred on May 1, 2013, it continued operation. * SourceForge (unofficially through webpages hosting service)
See also * Comparison of revision control software* List of revision control software
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