Simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management. Fossil is a distributed version control system, bug tracking system and wiki software server for use in software development.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
Comments about Fossil as an Alternative to Git

- Fossil is Free and Open Source















Its CLI is simpler, there is a filosofy of always preserving the history instead of giving the chance of rewriting it (hence the name "Fossil"), the data structure is a fully ACID-compliant database, queryable with SQL, it has many functions out of the box, and it's a single executable file.