Fossil vs TortoiseSVN: What are the differences?

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.

What is TortoiseSVN? The coolest interface to (Sub)version control. It is a really easy to use Revision control / version control / source control software for Windows. It is based on Apache™ Subversion (SVN)®; TortoiseSVN provides a nice and easy user interface for Subversion.Since it's not an integration for a specific IDE like Visual Studio, Eclipse or others, you can use it with whatever development tools you like, and with any type of file.

Fossil and TortoiseSVN can be primarily classified 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, TortoiseSVN provides the following key features:

• Easy to use. all commands are available directly from the Windows Explorer
• Powerful commit dialog. integrated spell checker for log messages
• Per project settings

TortoiseSVN is an open source tool with 39 GitHub stars and 29 GitHub forks. Here's a link to TortoiseSVN's open source repository on GitHub.