Quotable: I must say that Fossil is the best thing to happen to my development workflow this year, as I am pretty sure that using Git has resulted in the premature death of too many of my brain cells. I'm glad to be able to replace Git in every place that I possibly can with Fossil. On Jul 25, 2014 6:18 PM, "Joe Prostko" <joe.pros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congratulations! I must say that Fossil is the best thing to happen > to my development workflow this year, as I am pretty sure that using > Git has resulted in the premature death of too many of my brain cells. > I'm glad to be able to replace Git in every place that I possibly can > with Fossil. > > The occasion of the seven year anniversary reminds me of something > I've been meaning to ask on the list. It has been asked in the past > according to my check of the archives, but is there any chance you > would be willing to go on Floss Weekly and talk about Fossil? I know > that you were on there to talk about SQLite quite some time ago, but I > would love for there to be a show featuring Fossil. I know that > Randal's current way for projects to get on the show is that he will > only schedule a time if the project leader(s) contacts him directly. > In any case, I hope you will consider going on the show (alone or with > another core committer), as it would be a great way to let more people > know about the awesomeness that is Fossil. > > - joe > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > > The seventh anniversary of the first self-commit of Fossil source code > was > > this past Monday. Time flies. > > > > The logical predecessor of Fossil was CVSTrac (http://www.cvstrac.org/) > > which was a wiki and trouble-ticket system built atop CVS. CVSTrac > became > > the inspiration for Trac (http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/CvsTrac) which > is a > > similar tool for SVN that became far more popular than CVSTrac and which > is > > still in active use. Fossil was originally created to provide features > > needed in SQLite development, features that I couldn't get with > CVS+CVSTrac, > > or with Monotone or Git or Mercurial or any other configuration > management > > system available at the time. I worked on prototypes of Fossil for a > year > > or more prior to the first self-commit on 2007-07-21, but none of those > > early prototypes survive. > > > > Code archeologists will be able to find a lot of commonality between the > > CVSTrac and Fossil source codes. There is a clear genetic relationship > > between the two systems. > > > > Fossil was created for the purpose of aiding in the development of > SQLite. > > (Other uses for Fossil, though welcomed, are secondary.) The SQLite > > documentation sources ( > http://www.sqlite.org/docsrc/timeline?a=2000-01-01) > > were split off from the SQLite source tree in CVS on 2007-11-12, just a > few > > months after Fossil began self-hosting. But the core SQLite source code > did > > not move to Fossil until 2009-08-11, just after the release of SQLite > > version 3.6.17, over two years after Fossil became self-hosting. The > move > > from CVS to Fossil has proven to be a boon for SQLite development. > > > > CVSTrac was in active use by SQLite for a little over 7 years. To my > > knowledge, nobody uses CVSTrac any more. (OpenSSL was the last known > user > > of CVSTrac and they switched over to Git at the beginning of 2013.) > Fossil > > will soon overtake CVSTrac in terms of years of use, and Fossil has a > great > > deal more momentum and a much larger user base than CVSTrac ever had. > > > > -- > > D. Richard Hipp > > d...@sqlite.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > fossil-users mailing list > > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >
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