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NAME

       fossil - Distributed Version Control System

SYNOPSIS

       fossil help
       fossil help COMMAND
       fossil COMMAND [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       Fossil is a distributed version control system (DVCS) with built-in wiki, ticket tracker, CGI/http interface, and http server.

Available COMMANDs:
       add	      co	     info	    rename	   ticket
       addremove      commit	     init	    revert	   timeline
       all	      configuration  leaves	    rm		   ui
       annotate       deconstruct    ls 	    scrub	   undo
       artifact       delete	     merge	    search	   unset
       bisect	      descendants    mv 	    server	   update
       branch	      diff	     new	    settings	   user
       cgi	      export	     open	    sha1sum	   version
       changes	      extras	     pull	    sqlite3	   wiki
       checkout       finfo	     push	    stash	   winsrv
       ci	      gdiff	     rebuild	    status	   zip
       clean	      help	     reconstruct    sync
       clone	      http	     redo	    tag
       close	      import	     remote-url     tarball

FEATURES

       Features as described on the fossil home page.

       1.   Bug  Tracking And Wiki - In addition to doing distributed version control like Git and Mercurial, Fossil also supports distributed bug
	      tracking, distributed wiki, and a distributed blog mechanism all in a single integrated package.

       2.  Web Interface - Fossil has a built-in and easy-to-use web interface that simplifies project tracking and  promotes  situational  aware-
	      ness.  Simply  type  "fossil  ui"  from  within  any  check-out and Fossil automatically opens your web browser in a page that gives
	      detailed graphical history and status information on that project.

       3.  Autosync - Fossil supports "autosync" mode which helps to keep projects moving forward by reducing the amount of needless  forking  and
	      merging often associated with distributed projects.

       4.  Self-Contained - Fossil is a single stand-alone executable that contains everything needed to do configuration management. Installation
	      is trivial: simply download a precompiled binary for Linux, Mac, or Windows and put it on your $PATH. Easy-to-compile source code is
	      available  for  users  on  other platforms. Fossil sources are also mostly self-contained, requiring only the "zlib" library and the
	      standard C library to build.

       5.  Simple Networking - Fossil uses plain old HTTP (with proxy support) for all network communications, meaning that  it  works	fine  from
	      behind  restrictive  firewalls.  The protocol is bandwidth efficient to the point that Fossil can be used comfortably over a dial-up
	      internet connection.

       6.  CGI Enabled - No server is required to use fossil. But a server does make collaboration easier. Fossil  supports  three  different  yet
	      simple  server configurations. The most popular is a 2-line CGI script. This is the approach used by the self-hosting fossil reposi-
	      tories.

       7.  Robust & Reliable - Fossil stores content using an enduring file format in an SQLite database so that transactions are atomic  even	if
	      interrupted  by  a power loss or system crash. Furthermore, automatic self-checks verify that all aspects of the repository are con-
	      sistent prior to each commit. In over three years of operation, no work has ever been lost after having been committed to  a  Fossil
	      repository.

DOCUMENTATION

       http://www.fossil-scm.org/
       fossil ui

http://fossil-scm.org						   January 2011 							 FOSSIL(1)