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Comment:Minor corrections in grammar to Fossil vs Git rewrite.
Downloads: Tarball | ZIP archive | SQL archive
Timelines: family | ancestors | descendants | both | trunk
Files: files | file ages | folders
SHA1: 0b90da304fe78337c5b27a289cfac0e1e58f0b74
User & Date: andybradford 2015-12-17 03:29:29
Context
2015-12-17
15:58
Clean rebuild of SQLite (so the source_id of fts5 matches the one from SQLite itself) ... (check-in: 5b30c544 user: jan.nijtmans tags: trunk)
03:29
Minor corrections in grammar to Fossil vs Git rewrite. ... (check-in: 0b90da30 user: andybradford tags: trunk)
02:02
Remove stale code accidently left in an earlier commit. ... (check-in: 61c8d418 user: drh tags: trunk)
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If you clone Fossil's self-hosting repository, you get the entire
Fossil website - source code, documentation, ticket history, and so forth.

For developers who choose to self-host projects (rather than using a
3rd-party service such as GitHub) Fossil is much easier to set up, since
the stand-alone Fossil executable together with a 2-line CGI script
suffice to instantiate a full-featured developer website.  To accomplish
the same using Git requires locating, installed, configuring, integrating, 
and managing a wide assortment of separate tools.  Standing up a developer
website using Fossil can be done in minutes, whereas doing the same using
Git requires hours or days.

<h3>3.2 Database</h3>

The baseline data structures for Fossil and Git are the same (modulo







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If you clone Fossil's self-hosting repository, you get the entire
Fossil website - source code, documentation, ticket history, and so forth.

For developers who choose to self-host projects (rather than using a
3rd-party service such as GitHub) Fossil is much easier to set up, since
the stand-alone Fossil executable together with a 2-line CGI script
suffice to instantiate a full-featured developer website.  To accomplish
the same using Git requires locating, installing, configuring, integrating, 
and managing a wide assortment of separate tools.  Standing up a developer
website using Fossil can be done in minutes, whereas doing the same using
Git requires hours or days.

<h3>3.2 Database</h3>

The baseline data structures for Fossil and Git are the same (modulo
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check-in.  It is so difficult, in fact, that neither native Git nor
GitHub provide this capability.  With Git, if you are looking at some
historical check-in then you cannot ask
"what came next" or "what are the children of this check-in".

Fossil, on the other hand, parses essential information about check-ins
(parents, children, committers, comments, files changed, etc.) 
into a relation database that can be easily 
queried using concise SQL statements to find both ancestors and 
descendents of a check-in.

Leaf check-ins in Git that lack a "ref" become "detached", making them
difficult to locate and subject to garbage collection.  This
"detached head" problem has caused untold grief for countless
Git users.  With Fossil, all check-ins are easily located using







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check-in.  It is so difficult, in fact, that neither native Git nor
GitHub provide this capability.  With Git, if you are looking at some
historical check-in then you cannot ask
"what came next" or "what are the children of this check-in".

Fossil, on the other hand, parses essential information about check-ins
(parents, children, committers, comments, files changed, etc.) 
into a relational database that can be easily 
queried using concise SQL statements to find both ancestors and 
descendents of a check-in.

Leaf check-ins in Git that lack a "ref" become "detached", making them
difficult to locate and subject to garbage collection.  This
"detached head" problem has caused untold grief for countless
Git users.  With Fossil, all check-ins are easily located using