IMO, everything is in reverse. GitHub is not popular, because Git is great SCM. Git is popular because is used by GitHub!
Notice that GitHub is not only repository hosting. It is a social network for developers. That is why it is popular. And every SCM used in such popular social network will become popular on its own. So, Fossil can do nothing in the field of SCM design. But maybe it can do something in the field of the social networking? I am not social network user and slightly imagine what such users need. But, for example fossil can provide some way to connect the stand alone repositories and developers in some kind of distributed peer-to-peer network and to provide some interaction - I don't know - maybe some voting, messaging, clone tracking, collaborative environment, pull requests, whatever will turn a heap of independent repositories into mutually connected developers network. On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 00:05:07 -0400 Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > I periodically go to sites like GitHub looking for ideas on how Fossil > might be improved. So just now I was browsing the SQLite mirror that > somebody has put there. And I asked the simple question: How did this > project start? (I already know the answer, of course, but I'm curious > to see how somebody would figure it out if they were not the original > author.) > > So I locate the initial check-in here: > https://github.com/mackyle/sqlite/commit/a3b0e7bbb4e863e1f46ec7de5967e61cc57c8c4b > > Finding that check-in was an adventure in and of itself. Is there an > easy way that I overlooked to find the start of a project in GitHub? > > But now that I'm on the initial check-in, how do I get to the second > check-in? How do I find what comes next? > > It seems like every check-in information page has a "parent" link. > But I can't find any "children" links. What am I missing? When > reviewing the changes to a project, how to you move forward in time? > > I tried going to the "network" graph > (https://github.com/mackyle/sqlite/network) which seems similar to the > Fossil timeline graph, only sideways. But that graph only seems to go > back to 2011-06-03. In other words, the graph only shows about the > 5000 most recent changes. How do I go back further in time? > > Am I wrong to think that clicking through the changes in a project > (not necessarily from the beginning, but from some signification > event, say the most recent release) in chronological order is > something that people might commonly want to do? > -- > 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 -- http://fresh.flatassembler.net http://asm32.info John Found <johnfo...@asm32.info> _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
