Fossil Alternatives

Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. Our mission is to help developers write great software while staying out of the way.

Git for Windows focuses on offering a lightweight, native set of tools that bring the full feature set of the Git SCM to Windows while providing appropriate user interfaces for experienced Git users and novices alike.

Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It efficiently handles projects of any size and offers an easy and intuitive command line interface. Mercurial efficiently handles projects of any size and kind.

Apache Subversion (SVN) is a centralized version control system similar to CVS (Concurrent Versions System) , but based on the concept of change-sets instead.

Bazaar is a tool for helping people collaborate. It tracks the changes that you and other people make to a group of files - such as software source code - to give you snapshots of each stage of their evolution.

The Bug Genie is an issue tracking and project management, completely free for small teams.

Pijul is a free and open source distributed version control system based on a sound theory of patches, which makes it easy to learn and use, and really distributed.

Darcs is an advanced revision control system, for source code or other files. It is fully distributed, and supports lazy fetching of the remote repository (fetching only what is needed at the time, rather than all history).

CVS is a centralized version control system, an important component of Source Configuration Management (SCM). Using it, you can record the history of changes to individual text-based files.