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by embedding-shape 147 days ago
Used it on and off mainly to check it out, but always in a personal/experimental capacity. Never managed to convince any teams to give it a try, mostly because git don't tend to get in the way, so hard to justify to learn something completely new.

I really enjoy how local-first it is, as someone who sometimes work without internet connection. That the data around "work" is part of the SCM as well, not just the code, makes a lot of sense to me at a high-level, and many times I wish git worked the same...
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usrbinbash 147 days ago
I mean, git is just as "local-first" (a git repo is just a directory after all), and the standard git-toolchain includes a server, so...

But yeah, fossil is interesting, and it's a crying shame its not more well known, for the exact reasons you point out.

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embedding-shape 147 days ago
> I mean, git is just as "local-first" (a git repo is just a directory after all), and the standard git-toolchain includes a server, so...

It isn't though, Fossil integrates all the data around the code too in the "repository", so issues, wiki, documentation, notes and so on are all together, not like in git where most commonly you have those things on another platform, or you use something like `git notes` which has maybe 10% of the features of the respective Fossil feature.

It might be useful to scan through the list of features of Fossil and dig into it, because it does a lot more than you seem to think :) https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

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adastra22 147 days ago
Those things exist for git too, e.g. git-bug. But the first-class to do it in git is email.
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embedding-shape 147 days ago
Email isn't a wiki, bug tracking, documentation and all the other stuff Fossil offers as part of their core design. The point is for it to be in one place, and local-first.

If you don't trust me, read the list of features and give it a try yourself: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

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adastra22 147 days ago
I am aware of fossil. Did you look up git-bug?
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embedding-shape 147 days ago
Indeed, I'd still claim that a 3rd party addition doesn't make Git as local-first as Fossil when it comes to other things than source code.
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