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Fossil
Original authorD. Richard Hipp
Release2006; 20 years ago (2006)
Stable release
2.28[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 11 March 2026; 4 months ago (11 March 2026)
Written inC, SQL
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeSoftware configuration management, bug tracking system, wiki software
License2010: BSD-2-Clause[a][2]
2007: GPL-2.0-only[b]
Websitewww.fossil-scm.org Edit this on Wikidata
Repository

Fossil is a software configuration management, bug tracking system and wiki software server for use in software development created by D. Richard Hipp.

Features

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The Fossil web interface showing changes to the SQLite source tree

Fossil is a cross-platform distributed version control system that runs on Linux, BSD derivatives, Mac and Windows. It is capable of performing distributed version control, bug tracking, wiki services, and documentation.[3][4]

The software has a built-in web interface, accessible from the executable via a standalone HTTP server or as a CGI application. This interface provides features akin to a software forge, including bug tracking, documentation viewing, and commit timelines.[5]

To simplify centralized development, Fossil provides an "autosync" mode to automatically sync changes when commits are made, in a similar manner to centralized version control systems.[4][6]

Content is stored in an SQLite database, allowing it to benefit from the latter's atomic transactions for corruption resistance.[7][8]

Fossil is free software released under a BSD license (relicensed from previously GPL).[9]

Adoption

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Fossil is used for version control by the SQLite project, which is itself a component of Fossil. SQLite transitioned to using Fossil for version control over CVS on 2009-08-12.[10][11]

Fossil is additionally used for a few projects associated with Fossil and SQLite, including Tcl/Tk[12], Pikchr[13], and LuaSQLite3[14], as well as MySQL++, a C++ wrapper for the MySQL and MariaDB C APIs[15].

See also

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Notes

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  1. ↑ BSD-2-Clause since 2010-05-16.
  2. ↑ GPL-2.0-only from 2007-07-21 until 2010-05-16.

References

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  1. ↑ "Changes for version 2.28".
  2. ↑ Fossil Copyright
  3. ↑ "Fossil: A Coherent Software Configuration Management System". www.fossil-scm.org. Retrieved 2025-04-21.
  4. 1 2 Edge, Jake (March 16, 2011). "Version control with Fossil". lwn.net. Archived from the original on 2024-01-16. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
  5. ↑ "Fossil: The Fossil Web Interface". www.fossil-scm.org. Retrieved 2025-04-21.
  6. ↑ "Fossil: Fossil Concepts: Workflow". www.fossil-scm.org. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
  7. ↑ "Integrated version control with Fossil SCM". 5 November 2009., DLR Tech Talk presentation by Arne Bachmann, 2009-12-01
  8. ↑ "Fossil File Formats Login". fossil-scm.org. Hwaci. Retrieved 23 April 2026.
  9. ↑ "Fossil DSCM Relicensed with BSD License". 2010-05-16.
  10. ↑ "Fossil: Fossil Performance". Fossil-scm.org. 2009-08-23. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
  11. ↑ "SQLite: Timeline". sqlite.org.
  12. ↑ "Tcl Source Code". core.tcl-lang.org. Tcl. Retrieved 23 April 2026.
  13. ↑ "Pikchr: Documentation". pikchr.org. Hwaci. Retrieved 23 April 2026.
  14. ↑ "LuaSQLite3". lua.sqlite.org. Hwaci. Retrieved 23 April 2026.
  15. ↑ "MySQL++". tangentsoft.com. tangentsoft. Retrieved 23 April 2026.

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