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There are plenty of open-source version control systems available on the
Internet these days. What makes Fossil worthy of attention?
1. Bug Tracking And Wiki - In addition to doing distributed version control
like Git and Mercurial, Fossil also supports distributed bug tracking and
distributed wiki all in a single integrated package.
2. Web Interface - Fossil has a built-in and easy-to-use web interface that
simplifies project tracking and promotes situational awareness. Simply type
"fossil ui" from within any check-out and Fossil automatically opens your web
browser in a page that gives detailed history and status information on that
project.
3. Autosync - Fossil supports "autosync" mode which helps to keep projects
moving forward by reducing the amount of needless forking and merging often
associated distributed projects.
4. Self-Contained - Fossil is a single stand-alone executable that contains
everything needed to do configuration management. Installation is trivial:
simply download a precompiled binary for Linux, Mac, or Windows and put it on
your $PATH. Easy-to-compile source code is available for users on other
platforms. Fossil sources are also mostly self-contained, requiring only the
"zlib" library and the standard C library to build.
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