NAME¶

fossil - Distributed Version Control System

SYNOPSIS¶

fossil help
fossil help COMMAND
fossil COMMAND [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION¶

Fossil is a distributed version control system (DVCS) with built-in forum, wiki, ticket tracker, CGI/HTTP interface, and HTTP server.

Common COMMANDs:¶

add cat diff ls revert timeline
addremove changes extras merge rm ui
all chat finfo mv settings undo
amend clean gdiff open sql unversioned
annotate clone grep pull stash update
bisect commit help push status version
blame dbstat info rebuild sync
branch delete init remote tag

FEATURES¶

Features as described on the fossil home page.

1. Integrated Bug Tracking, Wiki, Forum, and Technotes - In addition to doing distributed version control like Git and Mercurial, Fossil also supports bug tracking, wiki, forum, and technotes.

2. Built-in Web Interface - Fossil has a built-in and intuitive web interface that promotes project situational awareness. Type "fossil ui" and Fossil automatically opens a web browser to a page that shows detailed graphical history and status information on that project.

3. Self-Contained - Fossil is a single self-contained stand-alone executable. To install, simply download a precompiled binary for Linux, Mac, OpenBSD, or Windows and put it on your $PATH. Easy-to-compile source code is available for users on other platforms.

4. Simple Networking - No custom protocols or TCP ports. Fossil uses plain old HTTP (or HTTPS or SSH) for all network communications, so it works fine from behind restrictive firewalls, including proxies. The protocol is bandwidth efficient to the point that Fossil can be used comfortably over dial-up or over the exceedingly slow Wifi on airliners.

5. CGI/SCGI Enabled - No server is required, but if you want to set one up, Fossil supports four easy server configurations.

6. Autosync - Fossil supports "autosync" mode which helps to keep projects moving forward by reducing the amount of needless forking and merging often associated with distributed projects.

7. Robust & Reliable - Fossil stores content using an enduring file format in an SQLite database so that transactions are atomic even if interrupted by a power loss or system crash. Automatic self-checks verify that all aspects of the repository are consistent prior to each commit.

8. Free and Open-Source - Uses the 2-clause BSD license.

DOCUMENTATION¶

https://fossil-scm.org/
fossil ui