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Fossil vs Upsource: 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; Upsource: Self-hosted Git, Mercurial, Subversion and Perforce repository browser and code review tool. Upsource summarizes recent changes in your repository, showing commit messages, authors, quick diffs, links to detailed diff views and associated code reviews. A commit graph helps visualize the history of commits, branches and merges in your repository.
Fossil and Upsource 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, Upsource provides the following key features:
- Instantly access all your projects
- Keep track of code changes
- Use code insight in Java projects
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 Upsource
- Free for 10 users15
- Good code review12
- Java code inspections and navigation8
- IDE integration8
- Has a linux version3
- Simple to use3
- Atlassian Integration2
- Jira integration2
- Post-commit preview2
- Self hosted2
- SonarQube Integration1
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Cons of Fossil
Cons of Upsource
- Very Large Server Footprint. Very large3
