# About Fossil Fossil is a distributed version control system that has been widely used since 2007. Fossil was originally designed to support the [SQLite](https://sqlite.org) project but has been adopted by many other projects as well. Fossil is self-hosting at . If you are reading this on GitHub, then you are looking at a Git mirror of the self-hosting Fossil repository. The purpose of that mirror is to test and exercise Fossil's ability to export a Git mirror. Nobody much uses the GitHub mirror, except to verify that the mirror logic works. If you want to know more about Fossil, visit the official self-hosting site linked above.