Comment by chungy - Hacker Neue

chungy May 14, 2025 parent

Fossil[0] has bug tracking as a standard feature, and through the HTTP role-based authentication, you are able to set up users with different privileges; for instance, being able to read and write the bug tracker without the ability to push new code.

[0]: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

ndegruchy May 14, 2025

+1 for this. I love having a self-contained, syncable GitHub-lite. It uses SQLite for the format, too, which makes it easy to discover the internals.

It just needs some more 'modern' themes

debugnik May 15, 2025

> It uses SQLite for the format

My chance at sharing Fossil is not Relational. The two times it's been submitted to HN it didn't gain votes.

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-is-not-rela...

ndegruchy May 16, 2025

Thanks for that. I kind of wondered how SQLite was relevant to SCM, but I hadn't really bothered to investigate it. Still, having it in a format that can be browsed and reasoned about is handy. Not that Git is any worse in this regard.

Plus, the only thing I need to do to transfer it to a new disk or network location is to move the `.fossil` file, since everything is nicely self-contained.

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