[bensummers]

I choose fossil at a time when it wasn't clear which one of fossil, Mercurial, or git would "win".

I choose it because it had a very clear and easy UI, guided you towards a way of working that is suitable for small teams (ie 99.99% of all projects), and had an approach to history which made it unlikely you'd ever accidentally lose work.

The only thing which has ever made me sad about my choice is pressure from people who think everyone should use git.

It also has some very nice features, like being able to give you a full web UI just by running it as a CGI process on a web server.

It is worth trying (and it can import and export git history). Just remember it's not git.

[Drdrdrq]

Been there, but with Mercurial. We chose it because it has sane CLI interface (as opposed to git), but eventually had to switch because we wanted to use GitLab. Not much difference all in all, except with git I still need to search the net to find a proper command, while with hg I could usually guess it and just checked help for confirmation. It saddens me that git won... Awful UX. But they had GitHub and now GitLab.

[judge2020]

For what it's worth, Git has a command for an instant web server https://git-scm.com/docs/gitweb