On 2017-09-14 16:55, Richard Hipp wrote:
If you'd like to help promote Fossil to unwashed masses who are still using Git, perhaps like or retweet https://twitter.com/robmurrer/status/908080904781869056 :-)
I never used Git but whenever I had an issue with Fossil I tried to find what the Git documentation says about it, as it was me who introduced Fossil to the team and made them use it, in spite of them suggesting and preferring Git. Both seem very similar, even down to - what I find - not the correct behaviour in many circumstances.
Fossil is a great piece of softare. Its primary strength is certainly that it is a single executable, easy to set up and easy to run as a CGI.
The biggest disadvantage - as my coworkers pointed out - is that the downloadable executables do not come with https enabled. This means you got to download and build OpenSSL yourself, then build Fossil. That's cumbersome and doesn't even work all the time (= trial and error). If it doesn't work, you got to wait for the next update unless you're willing to fix the build scripts yourself.
In particular Windows users are used to download software, then run it. That's it. They drop it if it doesn't work. Or they just complain to the one who introduced it. End of story. That's what I have to listen to all the time since I introduced Fossil in favour of Git.
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