Comment by usrbinbash
11 hours ago
I mean, git is just as "local-first" (a git repo is just a directory after all), and the standard git-toolchain includes a server, so...
But yeah, fossil is interesting, and it's a crying shame its not more well known, for the exact reasons you point out.
> I mean, git is just as "local-first" (a git repo is just a directory after all), and the standard git-toolchain includes a server, so...
It isn't though, Fossil integrates all the data around the code too in the "repository", so issues, wiki, documentation, notes and so on are all together, not like in git where most commonly you have those things on another platform, or you use something like `git notes` which has maybe 10% of the features of the respective Fossil feature.
It might be useful to scan through the list of features of Fossil and dig into it, because it does a lot more than you seem to think :) https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
Those things exist for git too, e.g. git-bug. But the first-class to do it in git is email.
Email isn't a wiki, bug tracking, documentation and all the other stuff Fossil offers as part of their core design. The point is for it to be in one place, and local-first.
If you don't trust me, read the list of features and give it a try yourself: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki