FOSSIL(1) User Commands FOSSIL(1)NAMEfossil - Distributed Version Control System
SYNOPSISfossil help
fossil help COMMAND
fossil COMMAND [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
Fossil is a distributed version control system (DVCS) with built-in
wiki, ticket tracker, CGI/http interface, and http server.
Available COMMANDs:
add co info rename ticket
addremove commit init revert timeline
all configuration leaves rm ui
annotate deconstruct ls scrub undo
artifact delete merge search unset
bisect descendants mv server update
branch diff new settings user
cgi export open sha1sum version
changes extras pull sqlite3 wiki
checkout finfo push stash winsrv
ci gdiff rebuild status zip
clean help reconstruct sync
clone http redo tag
close import remote-url tarball
FEATURES
Features as described on the fossil home page.
1. Bug Tracking And Wiki - In addition to doing distributed version
control like Git and Mercurial, Fossil also supports distributed
bug tracking, distributed wiki, and a distributed blog mechanism
all in a single integrated package.
2. Web Interface - Fossil has a built-in and easy-to-use web interface
that simplifies project tracking and promotes situational aware‐
ness. Simply type "fossil ui" from within any check-out and Fos‐
sil automatically opens your web browser in a page that gives
detailed graphical history and status information on that
project.
3. Autosync - Fossil supports "autosync" mode which helps to keep
projects moving forward by reducing the amount of needless fork‐
ing and merging often associated with distributed projects.
4. Self-Contained - Fossil is a single stand-alone executable that
contains everything needed to do configuration management.
Installation is trivial: simply download a precompiled binary
for Linux, Mac, or Windows and put it on your $PATH. Easy-to-
compile source code is available for users on other platforms.
Fossil sources are also mostly self-contained, requiring only
the "zlib" library and the standard C library to build.
5. Simple Networking - Fossil uses plain old HTTP (with proxy support)
for all network communications, meaning that it works fine from
behind restrictive firewalls. The protocol is bandwidth effi‐
cient to the point that Fossil can be used comfortably over a
dial-up internet connection.
6. CGI Enabled - No server is required to use fossil. But a server
does make collaboration easier. Fossil supports three different
yet simple server configurations. The most popular is a 2-line
CGI script. This is the approach used by the self-hosting fossil
repositories.
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. Further‐
more, automatic self-checks verify that all aspects of the
repository are consistent prior to each commit. In over three
years of operation, no work has ever been lost after having been
committed to a Fossil repository.
DOCUMENTATION
http://www.fossil-scm.org/
fossil ui
http://fossil-scm.org January 2011 FOSSIL(1)
