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Fossil vs Perforce: 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, Perforce is detailed as "Self-hosted Version Control Software". Visibility, access control, workflow and code management for Git environments. Flexibility of collaborating on the same codebase and code reviews using any combination of Perforce and Git workflows and tools without compromise.

Fossil and Perforce belong to "Code Collaboration & Version Control" category of the tech stack.

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Pros of Fossil
Pros of Perforce
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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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    Powerful
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    Great for Enterprise level use
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    Robust
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    Scalable

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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 Perforce?

Visibility, access control, workflow and code management for Git environments. Flexibility of collaborating on the same codebase and code reviews using any combination of Perforce and Git workflows and tools without compromise.

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    What are some alternatives to Fossil and Perforce?
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