> In contrast, Fossil is a single standalone binary which is installed by putting it on $PATH. ... It manages a community server with wiki, bug tracking, and forums, provides packaged ... Standing up a community server for Fossil takes minutes.
Let's see...
About a year ago I try to set up fossil because I wanted the issue tracking it supposedly provides. I'm already using git for VC and will stick with it.
Spend several hours and got nowhere. It's a local web-based thing and all I kept getting back was 404 Not Found. Did some reading around, found somebody had solved the problem by using --force option (IIRC, to force creation of a repo) but that didn't get me to anything actually working. The docs were unhelpful, as in wrong. Gave up. If you can't document your software then don't release it. Certainly don't make claims for its greatness and ease if you ignore what your users are saying on your message boards.
Make a repo. That's a file that lives wherever. Go to some directory, fossil open filename. Now you have a working directory. Type fossil ui, now you're looking at it in a browser.
It sounds like you want a version running on a machine that multiple people log into to access the UI. That I don't know how to set up. Spinning up the UI locally makes a lot more sense to me that sharing a single instance with the world.
> Make a repo. That's a file that lives wherever. Go to some directory, fossil open filename. Now you have a working directory. Type fossil ui, now you're looking at it in a browser.
Don't remember where I got to, I think --force got me a repo finally but the browser, well, I just got 404 then gave up.
> It sounds like you want a version running on a machine that multiple people log into to access the UI
Nope, mine is a one-man project, simple as you like.
Let's see...
About a year ago I try to set up fossil because I wanted the issue tracking it supposedly provides. I'm already using git for VC and will stick with it.
Spend several hours and got nowhere. It's a local web-based thing and all I kept getting back was 404 Not Found. Did some reading around, found somebody had solved the problem by using --force option (IIRC, to force creation of a repo) but that didn't get me to anything actually working. The docs were unhelpful, as in wrong. Gave up. If you can't document your software then don't release it. Certainly don't make claims for its greatness and ease if you ignore what your users are saying on your message boards.