Track bugs, manage wiki information and technotes for your software development projects with the help of this comprehensive CMD utility. #Version control system #Distributed version control #Distributed bug tracker #Version control #Bug tracker #Artifact
Fossil is a comprehensive and efficient software solution aimed to cater to developers’ needs in distributed version control operations, tracking bugs, managing wiki information and technical notes for the programs they are creating; it is meant to make the entire process more accessible and less demanding.
Being a command-line utility, this would imply an added difficulty in using it, which is why users can also find GUI front-ends available, such as Fuel. However, this may not offer full support for Fossil’s functions, only for the most important ones.
To get an understanding of what the tool is capable of, users can run the help command in a CMD window and obtain a brief enumeration of its functions. For the full list, users need to type ‘help -a’.
One of the main roles of Fossil consists of helping programmers track bugs for the software they are developing, which requires dealing with ‘tickets’ (or bug reports). These get stored separately from code check-ins, mainly to avoid clutter and allow them to be managed from a web interface.
Fossil supports the creation of wiki pages and other embedded documentation files with a WIKI extension. Similarly, users can produce, view and manage technical notes, like milestones, blog entries, process checkpoints, news articles and announcements.
Moreover, the utility does not make use of custom protocols for network communication, relying on HTTP and thus avoid problems with firewall restrictions or proxies; as a result it can even be used over dial-up connections, without much problem.
The ‘Autosync’ mode of Fossil ensures projects are continuously developing, all the while limited forking and merging operations. Content is stored in an SQLite database, making transactions atomic, with self-checks verifying project consistency of the repository.
What's new in Fossil 2.24:
- Apache change work-around → As part of a security fix, the Apache webserver mod_cgi module has stopped relaying the Content-Length field of the HTTP reply header from the CGI programs back to the client in cases where the connection is to be closed and the client is able to read until end-of-file. The HTTP and CGI specs allow for this, though it does seem rude. Older versions of Fossil were depending on the Content-Length header field being set. To work around the change to Apache, Fossil has been enhanced to cope with a missing Content-Length in the reply header. See forum thread 12ac403fd29cfc89.
- Skin enhancements:
- Reworked the default skin to make everything more readable: larger fonts, more whitespace, deeper indents to show hierarchy and to offset command examples, etc. Adjusted colors slightly to bring things into better accord with the WCAG accessibility guidelines. This constitutes a breaking change for those with custom skins; see this section of the docs for migration advice.
- Add a new link added to the /login page that allows the user to select their preferred skin. This preference is stored in the fossil display_settings cookie.
Fossil 2.24
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- Windows All
- file size:
- 3 MB
- filename:
- fossil-w32-2.24.zip
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