Fossil vs GitPlex: What are the differences?

Developers describe Fossil as "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. On the other hand, GitPlex is detailed as "A new Git repo management server with code review". GitPlex mimics git log in web interface, with hints and auto-completes available to help user quickly constructing desired commit queries.

Fossil and GitPlex can be categorized as "Code Collaboration & Version Control" tools.

Some of the features offered by Fossil are:

• Bug Tracking And Wiki
• Web Interface
• Autosync

On the other hand, GitPlex provides the following key features:

• Commit search with hints and auto-completion
• Code search by symbols, file names, and texts
• Source structure outlines (currently Java only)