FOSSIL(1) User Commands FOSSIL(1)

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

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

https://fossil-scm.org Oct 2024 FOSSIL(1)