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Re: by thunderbong on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @05:09AM (#47423359)
And fossil itself is an SQLite database!
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Re: by cbluth on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @11:36AM (#47427092)
> fossil itself is an SQLite database

Can anyone explain what this means and how it works?

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Re: by wps on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @12:26PM (#47427765)
Fossil itself is a C binary, not a database. Maybe they meant that Fossil’s source code is hosted in Fossil, or that Fossil repositories are SQLite files? I don’t exactly know either.
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Re: by ImGajeed76 on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @12:30PM (#47427817)
They are talking about this fossil: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
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