[spit2wind]

> only a handful of VCS besides git have ever managed a full import of the kernel's history. Fossil (SQLite-based, by the SQLite team) never did.

I find this hard to believe. I searched the Fossil forums and found no mention of such an attempt (and failure). Unfortunately, I don't have a computer handy to verify or disprove. Is there any evidence for this claim?

[gritzko]

I was giving students an assignment to import git repo into fossil and the other way around. git was a tad faster, but not dramatically.

[ImGajeed76]

i did look into this before writing the post. there's a fossil-users mailing list post by Isaac Jurado where he reported that importing Django took ~20 minutes and importing glibc on a 16GB machine had to be interrupted after a couple of hours. he explicitly warned against trying the linux kernel. the largest documented import on the fossil site itself was NetBSD pkgsrc (~550MB) which already showed scaling issues. so "never did" is fair - not because anyone tried and failed, but because it was known to be impractical and explicitly discouraged.