Fossil SCM

Drop "efficiency" claims in fossil-v-git, as the term is not quite right to describe the point. Use "self-sufficient" instead.

drh 2020-12-12 01:12 trunk
Commit 41b34915bb816ab61607142bbb1a94a1bd5fdd196c9d1c085dd1ff6cfe9db712
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--- www/fossil-v-git.wiki
+++ www/fossil-v-git.wiki
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<td>VCS, tickets, wiki, docs, notes, forum, UI,
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-based_access_control|RBAC]</td>
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<td><a href="#features">2.1&nbsp;&darr;</a></td>
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</tr>
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- <td>Sprawling and inefficient</td>
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- <td>Self-contained and efficient</td>
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- <td><a href="#efficient">2.2&nbsp;&darr;</a></td>
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+ <td>Sprawling collection of programs</td>
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+ <td>Self-contained, stand-alone executable</td>
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+ <td><a href="#selfcontained">2.2&nbsp;&darr;</a></td>
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</tr>
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<td>One-off custom pile-of-files data store</td>
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<td>[https://sqlite.org/famous.html|The most popular database in the world]</td>
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<td><a href="#durable">2.3&nbsp;&darr;</a></td>
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history, and so forth.² That means you get a copy of this very article
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and all of its historical versions, plus the same for all of the other
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public content on this site.
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-<h3 id="efficient" name="effective">2.2 Efficient</h3>
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+<h3 id="selfcontained" name="selfcontained">2.2 Self Contained</h3>
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Git is actually a collection of many small tools, each doing one small
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part of the job, which can be recombined (by experts) to perform
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powerful operations. Git has a lot of complexity and many dependencies,
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so that most people end up installing it via some kind of package
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thing you could call a "server" these days, but when you go to host that
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in the cloud, you can expect to pay about 8× as much to comfortably host
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GitLab as for Fossil.³ This difference is largely due to basic
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technology choices: Ruby and PostgreSQL vs C and SQLite.
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-The Fossil project itself is [./selfhost.wiki|hosted on a very small
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-VPS], and we've received many reports on the Fossil forum about people
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-successfully hosting Fossil service on bare-bones $5/month VPS hosts,
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-spare Raspberry Pi boards, and other small hosts.
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-
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-
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+The Fossil project itself is [./selfhost.wiki|hosted on a small and
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+inexpensive VPS]. A bare-bones $5/month VPS or a
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+spare Raspberry Pi is sufficient to run a full-up project
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+site, complete with tickets, wiki, and forum, in addition to
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+being a code repository.
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<h3 id="durable" name="database">2.3 Durable</h3>
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The baseline data structures for Fossil and Git are the same, modulo
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formatting details. Both systems manage a
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--- www/fossil-v-git.wiki
+++ www/fossil-v-git.wiki
@@ -43,13 +43,13 @@
43 <td>VCS, tickets, wiki, docs, notes, forum, UI,
44 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-based_access_control|RBAC]</td>
45 <td><a href="#features">2.1&nbsp;&darr;</a></td>
46 </tr>
47 <tr>
48 <td>Sprawling and inefficient</td>
49 <td>Self-contained and efficient</td>
50 <td><a href="#efficient">2.2&nbsp;&darr;</a></td>
51 </tr>
52 <tr>
53 <td>One-off custom pile-of-files data store</td>
54 <td>[https://sqlite.org/famous.html|The most popular database in the world]</td>
55 <td><a href="#durable">2.3&nbsp;&darr;</a></td>
@@ -154,11 +154,11 @@
154 history, and so forth.² That means you get a copy of this very article
155 and all of its historical versions, plus the same for all of the other
156 public content on this site.
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159 <h3 id="efficient" name="effective">2.2 Efficient</h3>
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161 Git is actually a collection of many small tools, each doing one small
162 part of the job, which can be recombined (by experts) to perform
163 powerful operations. Git has a lot of complexity and many dependencies,
164 so that most people end up installing it via some kind of package
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220 thing you could call a "server" these days, but when you go to host that
221 in the cloud, you can expect to pay about 8× as much to comfortably host
222 GitLab as for Fossil.³ This difference is largely due to basic
223 technology choices: Ruby and PostgreSQL vs C and SQLite.
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225 The Fossil project itself is [./selfhost.wiki|hosted on a very small
226 VPS], and we've received many reports on the Fossil forum about people
227 successfully hosting Fossil service on bare-bones $5/month VPS hosts,
228 spare Raspberry Pi boards, and other small hosts.
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232 <h3 id="durable" name="database">2.3 Durable</h3>
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234 The baseline data structures for Fossil and Git are the same, modulo
235 formatting details. Both systems manage a
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--- www/fossil-v-git.wiki
+++ www/fossil-v-git.wiki
@@ -43,13 +43,13 @@
43 <td>VCS, tickets, wiki, docs, notes, forum, UI,
44 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-based_access_control|RBAC]</td>
45 <td><a href="#features">2.1&nbsp;&darr;</a></td>
46 </tr>
47 <tr>
48 <td>Sprawling collection of programs</td>
49 <td>Self-contained, stand-alone executable</td>
50 <td><a href="#selfcontained">2.2&nbsp;&darr;</a></td>
51 </tr>
52 <tr>
53 <td>One-off custom pile-of-files data store</td>
54 <td>[https://sqlite.org/famous.html|The most popular database in the world]</td>
55 <td><a href="#durable">2.3&nbsp;&darr;</a></td>
@@ -154,11 +154,11 @@
154 history, and so forth.² That means you get a copy of this very article
155 and all of its historical versions, plus the same for all of the other
156 public content on this site.
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159 <h3 id="selfcontained" name="selfcontained">2.2 Self Contained</h3>
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161 Git is actually a collection of many small tools, each doing one small
162 part of the job, which can be recombined (by experts) to perform
163 powerful operations. Git has a lot of complexity and many dependencies,
164 so that most people end up installing it via some kind of package
@@ -220,16 +220,15 @@
220 thing you could call a "server" these days, but when you go to host that
221 in the cloud, you can expect to pay about 8× as much to comfortably host
222 GitLab as for Fossil.³ This difference is largely due to basic
223 technology choices: Ruby and PostgreSQL vs C and SQLite.
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225 The Fossil project itself is [./selfhost.wiki|hosted on a small and
226 inexpensive VPS]. A bare-bones $5/month VPS or a
227 spare Raspberry Pi is sufficient to run a full-up project
228 site, complete with tickets, wiki, and forum, in addition to
229 being a code repository.
 
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231 <h3 id="durable" name="database">2.3 Durable</h3>
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233 The baseline data structures for Fossil and Git are the same, modulo
234 formatting details. Both systems manage a
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