Fork vs Fossil

Overview

Fossil

Stacks7

Followers25

Votes6

Fork

Stacks197

Followers258

Votes126

Fork vs Fossil: What are the differences?

What is Fork? Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac. Manage your repositories without leaving the application. Organize the repositores into categories. Fork's Diff Viewer provides a clear view to spot the changes in your source code quickly.

What is Fossil? Simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management. Fossil is a software configuration management system. Fossil is software that is designed to control and track the development of a software project and to record the history of the project. There are many such systems in use today. Fossil strives to distinguish itself from the others by being extremely simple to setup and operate.

Fork and Fossil are primarily classified as "Source Code Management Desktop Apps" and "Code Collaboration & Version Control" tools respectively.

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Advice on Fossil, Fork

Stefan

Jan 19, 2020

Decided

I explored many Git Desktop tools for the Mac and my final decision was to use Fork. What I love about for that it contains three features, I like about a Git Client tool.

It allows

to handle day to day git operations (least important for me as I am cli junkie)
it helps to investigate the history
most important of all, it has a repo manager which many other tools are missing.

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Detailed Comparison

Fossil	Fork
Fossil is a software configuration management system. Fossil is software that is designed to control and track the development of a software project and to record the history of the project. There are many such systems in use today. Fossil strives to distinguish itself from the others by being extremely simple to setup and operate.	Manage your repositories without leaving the application. Organize the repositores into categories. Fork's Diff Viewer provides a clear view to spot the changes in your source code quickly.
Bug Tracking And Wiki;Web Interface; Autosync;Self-Contained;Simple Networking;CGI/SCGI Enabled;Robust & Reliable	-
Statistics
Stacks 7	Stacks 197
Followers 25	Followers 258
Votes 6	Votes 126
Pros & Cons
Pros 2 Integrated Bug Tracking, Wiki and Tech Notes 1 Cheap&intelligent 1 Strong and flexible 1 Dead simple & single binary with tons of features 1 AutoSync - Reduces needless Merging and Forking	Pros 19 One of the easiest and fastest git GUIs 14 Nice UX 13 Does the job way better than others 13 Fast, Great support, Does-it-all, blazing fast 11 Dark theme Cons 2 Poorly written license 1 Merges that require interactive user decision 1 Stability is fragile when looking deeply into history
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Git	Git

What are some alternatives to Fossil, Fork?

GitHub

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

Bitbucket

Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test and deploy, all with free private Git repositories. Teams choose Bitbucket because it has a superior Jira integration, built-in CI/CD, & is free for up to 5 users.

GitLab

GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. Enterprises install GitLab on-premise and connect it with LDAP and Active Directory servers for secure authentication and authorization. A single GitLab server can handle more than 25,000 users but it is also possible to create a high availability setup with multiple active servers.

SourceTree

Use the full capability of Git and Mercurial in the SourceTree desktop app. Manage all your repositories, hosted or local, through SourceTree's simple interface.

GitKraken

The downright luxurious Git client for Windows, Mac and Linux. Cross-platform, 100% standalone, and free.

RhodeCode

RhodeCode provides centralized control over distributed code repositories. Developers get code review tools and custom APIs that work in Mercurial, Git & SVN. Firms get unified security and user control so that their CTOs can sleep at night

AWS CodeCommit

CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure. You can use CodeCommit to securely store anything from source code to binaries, and it works seamlessly with your existing Git tools.

Gogs

The goal of this project is to make the easiest, fastest and most painless way to set up a self-hosted Git service. With Go, this can be done in independent binary distribution across ALL platforms that Go supports, including Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

Gitea

Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD. It published under the MIT license.

Tower

Use all of Git's powerful feature set - in a GUI that makes you more productive.

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