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Fossil vs Gitblit: What are the differences?

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; Gitblit: Pure Java Git solution for managing, viewing, and serving Git repositories. Gitblit is an open source, pure Java Git solution for managing, viewing, and serving Git repositories. It can serve repositories over the GIT, HTTP, and SSH transports; it can authenticate against multiple providers; and it allows you to get up-and-running with an attractive, capable Git server in less than 5 minutes.

Fossil and Gitblit can be primarily classified as "Code Collaboration & Version Control" tools.

Gitblit is an open source tool with 1.62K GitHub stars and 585 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Gitblit's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Fossil

Pros of Gitblit

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Integrated Bug Tracking, Wiki and Tech Notes
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Dead simple & single binary with tons of features
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Strong and flexible
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Cheap&intelligent
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AutoSync - Reduces needless Merging and Forking

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Fast and fulfill just the features I need
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Better user & group management
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Free
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Easy to setup. Runs on OSX
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Windows authentication is supported
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Run on Windows

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Cons of Fossil

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Confusing UI
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Squash and Merge is not supported
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No active development
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No code review functionality
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No Pull Requests

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What is Fossil?

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.

What is Gitblit?

Gitblit is an open source, pure Java Git solution for managing, viewing, and serving Git repositories. It can serve repositories over the GIT, HTTP, and SSH transports; it can authenticate against multiple providers; and it allows you to get up-and-running with an attractive, capable Git server in less than 5 minutes.

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What are some alternatives to Fossil and Gitblit?

Helix

Helix allows you to write Ruby classes in Rust without having to write the glue code yourself.

Git

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

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.

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.

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.

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