[RainaRelanah]

You're right, philosophy differs. I generally dislike private branches. It goes back to the origin of git -- intended for the linux kernel, one of the most widely used open source projects with tens of thousands of contributors. Linus doesn't want or need to see a million private branches. None of the projects I work on are of that scale. When your team is under a dozen people, being able to see what your coworkers are playing with in real time (autosync) is actually incredibly useful.

Stand-alone executable is pretty significant. Git is available on most servers -- fossil is not. If it's packaged in your OS, it's often outdated. Stand-alone kinda makes up for this as you can easily get the latest version with a wget & chmod on any computer, on all 3 platforms.

As for sqlite, it is an astoundingly solid rdbms that is well battle-tested. I consider that a big difference.