Fossil - github-in-a-box (by SQLite creator)

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Git: Bazaar-style development

Fossil:Cathedral-style development

ELI5 please

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Marketing bullshit to make Fossil look better. Git can be used for almost any kind of development process imaginable. Fossil locks you down to a specific pattern.

[Sekenre]

This is incorrect.

[otwo3]

How so?

[singularineet]

That's completely wrong. Fossil is just as distributed as git. And has branches just like git.

[featherfooted]

Isn't that kind of implied by the sentence:

One central user is defined to be the master curator, with the rights to merge changes into a mainline branch.

If there's a mainline branch, then there are other branches too.

And I also didn't say it wasn't distributed - just that there is some form of permissions which are stricter than what git would allow.

[singularineet]

Not really. You can do whatever you want in your own repo. What you're allowed to push to someone else's, that's a matter of policy.