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Fossil vs GitHub Enterprise: 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; GitHub Enterprise: The on-premises version of GitHub, which you can deploy and manage in your own, secure environment. GitHub Enterprise lets developers use the tools they love across the development process with support for popular IDEs, continuous integration tools, and hundreds of third party apps and services.
Fossil and GitHub Enterprise belong to "Code Collaboration & Version Control" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Fossil are:
- Bug Tracking And Wiki
- Web Interface
- Autosync
On the other hand, GitHub Enterprise provides the following key features:
- Compliance and auditing
- Hundreds of integrations
- Flexible deployment
We are using a Bitbucket server, and due to migration efforts and new Atlassian community license changes, we need to move to a new self-hosted solution. The new data-center license for Atlassian, available in February, will be community provisioned (free). Along with that community license, other technologies will be coming with it (Crucible, Confluence, and Jira). Is there value in a paid-for license to get the GitHub Enterprise? Are the tools that come with it worth the cost?
I know it is about $20 per 10 seats, and we have about 300 users. Have other convertees to Microsoft's tools found it easy to do a migration? Is the toolset that much more beneficial to the free suite that one can get from Atlassian?
So far, free seems to be the winner, and the familiarization with Atlassian implementation and maintenance is understood. Going to GitHub, are there any distinct challenges to be found or any perks to be attained?
These are pretty competitive, and to recommend one over the other would require understanding your usage. Also, what other tools you use: for instance, what do you use for Issue-tracking, or for build pipelines. In your case, since you are already using Bitbucket, the question would be: do you have any current pain-points? And, on the other hand, do you already use Atlassian's JIRA, where you'd benefit from the tight integration? So, though I would not recommend one over the other just in general,. But, if Bitbucket fulfills your current use-cases, then there seems to be little motivation to move.
Pros of Fossil
- Integrated Bug Tracking, Wiki and Tech Notes2
- Dead simple & single binary with tons of features1
- Strong and flexible1
- Cheap&intelligent1
- AutoSync - Reduces needless Merging and Forking1
Pros of GitHub Enterprise
- Expensive - $$$4
- Code security2
- CDCI with Github Actions2
- Both Cloud and Enterprise Server Versions available1
- Draft Pull Request1
- User experience0
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Cons of Fossil
Cons of GitHub Enterprise
- $$$2
