The following are collected quotes from various forums and blogs about Fossil, Git, and DVCSes in general. This collection is put together by the creator of Fossil, so of course there is selection bias...
On The Usability Of Git:
- Git approaches the useability of iptables, which is to say, utterly
unusable unless you have the manpage tattooed on you arm.
by mml at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1433387
It's simplest to think of the state of your [git] repository as a point in a high-dimensional "code-space", in which branches are represented as n-dimensional membranes, mapping the spatial loci of successive commits onto the projected manifold of each cloned repository.
At http://tartley.com/?p=1267
We've been using git and github for a few months now, and it's not intuitive... I'm hoping someone will make a set of standard wrappers/GUI for making git bearable.
maro at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1433387
On The Usability Of Fossil:
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Fossil mesmerizes me with simplicity especially after I struggled to
get a bug-tracking system to work with mercurial.
rawjeev at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/156322/what-do-people-think-of-the-fossil-dvcs
Fossil is awesome!!! I have never seen an app like that before, such simplicity and flexibility!!!
zengr at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/138621/best-version-control-for-lone-developer
On Git Versus Fossil
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Just want to say thanks for fossil making my life easier....
Also [for] not having a misanthropic command line interface.
Joshua Paine at http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/msg02736.html
We use it at a large university to manage code that small teams write. The runs everywhere, ease of installation and portability is something that seems to be a good fit with the environment we have (highly ditrobuted, sometimes very restrictive firewalls, OSX/Win/Linux). We are happy with it and teaching a Msc/Phd student (read complete novice) fossil has just been a smoother ride than Git was.
viablepanic at http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bxcto/why_not_fossil_scm/