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Re:Fossil: A decentralized version control, bug tracking, an... by mysterydip on Sunday October 09, 2016 @11:23PM (#12674835)
Never heard of it before, but I'm grateful to hear about it! My projects were always small enough that a traditional version control system wasn't worth the time to set up. Just keep an archive of each day's progress in a folder and call it done.

With my latest project, I'm maintaining multiple splits of the codebase for different platform-specific features, and sharing the code with a team member. I was about to bite the bullet and start installing cvs or git in a VM and going through the learning curve, but this seems right up my alley and the kind of system I'd mesh with well. Thanks!

Re:Fossil: A decentralized version control, bug tracking, an... by lucaspiller on Monday October 10, 2016 @01:08AM (#12675165)
> My projects were always small enough that a traditional version control system wasn't worth the time to set up

There's no such thing as too small: I use Git for everything, including small scripts I may never use again. The setup is "mkdir fooscript && cd fooscript && git init". Plus using GitLuBucket means free backups.

Re:Fossil: A decentralized version control, bug tracking, an... by splitbrain on Monday October 10, 2016 @09:27AM (#12676936)
What is GitLuBucket? Google thinks you meant BitBucket, but it seems to be a very weird typo.
Re:Fossil: A decentralized version control, bug tracking, an... by lucaspiller on Monday October 10, 2016 @04:51PM (#12679701)
GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket. Sorry it wasn't clear :-)
Re:Fossil: A decentralized version control, bug tracking, an... by pablasso on Monday October 10, 2016 @01:37AM (#12675264)
How is `git init` or `hg init` harder than maintaining different versions of your code in separate folders?
Re:Fossil: A decentralized version control, bug tracking, an... by Moru on Monday October 10, 2016 @02:58AM (#12675516)
It's usually the extra learning curve to use those commands in the first place, not that they are simple to use.
Re:Fossil: A decentralized version control, bug tracking, an... by petre on Monday October 10, 2016 @01:10AM (#12675175)
It's really easy to use and it has builtin help like mercurial. No need to read man pages. We use it for all our projects. I also use it for tracking config changes in /etc.