Fossil SCM
Added point about installing Fossil on Windows vs installing Git to fossil-v-git doc.
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| --- www/fossil-v-git.wiki | ||
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| 361 | 361 | Git has a lot of complexity and many dependencies and requires an "installer" |
| 362 | 362 | script or program to get it running. |
| 363 | 363 | |
| 364 | 364 | Fossil is a single self-contained stand-alone executable with hardly |
| 365 | 365 | any dependencies. Fossil can be (and often is) run inside a |
| 366 | -minimally configured chroot jail. To install Fossil, | |
| 367 | -one merely puts the executable somewhere in the $PATH. | |
| 366 | +minimally configured [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroot|chroot jail]. To install Fossil, | |
| 367 | +one merely puts the executable somewhere in the <tt>$PATH</tt>. | |
| 368 | + | |
| 369 | +This difference is especially stark on Windows: you need to drag along a | |
| 370 | +Cygwin or MSYS environment to get Git running on Windows due to all of | |
| 371 | +its third-party dependencies. Installing Fossil on Windows is the same | |
| 372 | +as installing it on every other OS: download the executable and drop it | |
| 373 | +in the path somewhere. | |
| 368 | 374 | |
| 369 | 375 | The designer of Git says that the Unix philosophy is to have lots of |
| 370 | 376 | small tools that collaborate to get the job done. The designer of |
| 371 | 377 | Fossil says that the Unix philosophy is "It just works." Both |
| 372 | 378 | individuals have written their DVCSes to reflect their own view |
| 373 | 379 |
| --- www/fossil-v-git.wiki | |
| +++ www/fossil-v-git.wiki | |
| @@ -361,12 +361,18 @@ | |
| 361 | Git has a lot of complexity and many dependencies and requires an "installer" |
| 362 | script or program to get it running. |
| 363 | |
| 364 | Fossil is a single self-contained stand-alone executable with hardly |
| 365 | any dependencies. Fossil can be (and often is) run inside a |
| 366 | minimally configured chroot jail. To install Fossil, |
| 367 | one merely puts the executable somewhere in the $PATH. |
| 368 | |
| 369 | The designer of Git says that the Unix philosophy is to have lots of |
| 370 | small tools that collaborate to get the job done. The designer of |
| 371 | Fossil says that the Unix philosophy is "It just works." Both |
| 372 | individuals have written their DVCSes to reflect their own view |
| 373 |
| --- www/fossil-v-git.wiki | |
| +++ www/fossil-v-git.wiki | |
| @@ -361,12 +361,18 @@ | |
| 361 | Git has a lot of complexity and many dependencies and requires an "installer" |
| 362 | script or program to get it running. |
| 363 | |
| 364 | Fossil is a single self-contained stand-alone executable with hardly |
| 365 | any dependencies. Fossil can be (and often is) run inside a |
| 366 | minimally configured [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroot|chroot jail]. To install Fossil, |
| 367 | one merely puts the executable somewhere in the <tt>$PATH</tt>. |
| 368 | |
| 369 | This difference is especially stark on Windows: you need to drag along a |
| 370 | Cygwin or MSYS environment to get Git running on Windows due to all of |
| 371 | its third-party dependencies. Installing Fossil on Windows is the same |
| 372 | as installing it on every other OS: download the executable and drop it |
| 373 | in the path somewhere. |
| 374 | |
| 375 | The designer of Git says that the Unix philosophy is to have lots of |
| 376 | small tools that collaborate to get the job done. The designer of |
| 377 | Fossil says that the Unix philosophy is "It just works." Both |
| 378 | individuals have written their DVCSes to reflect their own view |
| 379 |