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Fossil is a distributed version control system that includes source control management, bug-tracker, wiki, and forum in a single executable.

Fossil requires minimal configuration, is cross-platform, and includes a builtin web interface and server. The fossil web site pages are generated by an instance of Fossil itself.

Fossil is most notably used by the open-source software project SQLite, which was also created by Fossil's creator, D. Richard Hipp.

Getting Started

  1. Download the latest version of Fossil available for your platform.
  2. Read the Fossil Concepts and Fossil Quick Start Guide, and begin experimenting with Fossil.

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How to force a commit in fossil-scm omitting the inquiry about time skew and empty comments?

I'm making a GUI on pharo/smalltalk for writing structured docs and I'm using fossil as a SCM for the output files (STON, markdown and HTML) and I would like to commit changes on these files from Pharo without answering any questions about time skew…
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Fossil svn: linking tickets to a branch

I have 2 branches in my Fossil repository: is it possible to link a ticket only to one of the two branches, so that in the timeline view you can understand which branch a ticket belongs to? Thank you in advance
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Change Fossil-SCM timeline page HTML

I need change in the HTML of timeline page generated by Fossil-SCM inside the timelineTableCell class td element. Current content of this td element is as follows
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Fossil SCM in Windows, how to make timeline accessible in LAN?

I have run the Fossil-SCM web interface for timeline of my project at port 8080 using the command fossil.exe ui I'm connected to a LAN, my IP is 192.168.137.11 and I want to access the timeline from the IP 192.168.137.8 When I try to open…
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Is SQL the ''assembler'' of the NoSQL database world?

I recently came across http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/theory1.wiki by D. Richard Hipp, the developer responsible for SQLite. it go me thinking, is Fossil the only NoSQL database that uses SQL? Do others uses SQL as a 'High Level…
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How to keep track with some reverted old file version in fossil?

There is a repository repository repo.fossil bug.c modified many times (eg. revision 10a3->34bd->152c). There are many files changes in 10a3, 34bd and 152c revision. Bug will fixed if combine 152c revision with bug.c at 34bd. How to keep such…
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Error on cloning fossil: "Attempt to write a readonly database"

This is the first time I've attempt to host a fossil repository on my personal server. When I try to clone a project on Windows 7, I get a bizarre message: PS [folder]> fossil clone 'http://[hostName]/cgi-bin/repo/[repoName]' [repoName].fossil …
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Common header and footer in fossil

I have a master remote repository, and two local repositories. However, it appears that changes to header/footer/css do not propagate throughout the repos. How can I achieve this?
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fossil v1.24 fails on linux with 'no such file'

If I download fossil v1.23 to my linux server, everything goes fine. root@x:/home/james/test# unzip fossil-linux-x86-20120808112557.zip Archive: fossil-linux-x86-20120808112557 (1).zip inflating: fossil root@x:/home/james/test# mv fossil…
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Multiple coders on the same source

I'm having a problem with my coders, they seems to keep on overwriting each others work from time to time because they keep on working on overlapping files. I've looked it up and it seems that "Fossil" might be the solution for me…
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How do I see outgoing changes with fossil

With veracity and mercurial you can do a "outgoing" command to see what changes would be pushed to the server. How can I do that with fossil?
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Cloning Fossil with self-hosted cgi script yields "unknown repository"

I've been trying for two weeks to set up fossil to work and if I did not see the advantage of having a repository I would have given up by now. I am really at my last wits end with this. I have set up fossil on both my server and my computer. My…
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How can I view the fossil documentation offline?

There are lots of docs on the fossil page, am I just supposed to checkout the whole repository to view them offline? The man-pages are rather sparse, and unlike in git, there seem to be no meta-manpages encompassing topics covered in the online…
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delete commits permanently from fossil repository

As the timeline below shows, I forgot to add prior to commit and produced two checkins ...4a and ...3d. Then checked out ...97, repeated the change and committed with --allow-fork ...85. How can I get rid of checkins ...4a and…
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FOSSIL: file outside of checkout tree

As I understand the directories of each file fossil.exe, repository-file and files (to be versioned) can be in totally different pathes, is that right? However, I get the following error: file outside of checkout tree: path_to_file\filename My…
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