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2	2	<nowiki>
3	3
4	4	<p>This checklist is loosely derived from Tom "Spot" Callaway's Fail Score
5	5	blog post <a href="http://spot.livejournal.com/308370.html">
6	6	http://spot.livejournal.com/308370.html</a> (see also
7		-<a href="http://www.theopensourceway.org/book/The_Open_Source_Way-How_to_tell_if_a_FLOSS_project_is_doomed_to_FAIL.html">[1]</a> and
8		-<a href="https://www.theopensourceway.org/wiki/How_to_tell_if_a_FLOSS_project_is_doomed_to_FAIL">[2]</a>).
	7	+<a href="http://www.theopensourceway.org/book/The_Open_Source_Way-How_to_tell_if_a_FLOSS_project_is_doomed_to_FAIL.html">[1]</a>).
9	8	Tom's original post assigned point scores to the various elements and
10	9	by adding together the individual points, the reader is supposed to be able
11	10	to judge the likelihood that the project will fail.
12	11	The point scores, and the items on the list, clearly reflect Tom's
13	12	biases and are not necessarily those of the larger open-source community.
14	13

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2	<nowiki>
3
4	<p>This checklist is loosely derived from Tom "Spot" Callaway's Fail Score
5	blog post <a href="http://spot.livejournal.com/308370.html">
6	http://spot.livejournal.com/308370.html</a> (see also
7	<a href="http://www.theopensourceway.org/book/The_Open_Source_Way-How_to_tell_if_a_FLOSS_project_is_doomed_to_FAIL.html">[1]</a> and
8	<a href="https://www.theopensourceway.org/wiki/How_to_tell_if_a_FLOSS_project_is_doomed_to_FAIL">[2]</a>).
9	Tom's original post assigned point scores to the various elements and
10	by adding together the individual points, the reader is supposed to be able
11	to judge the likelihood that the project will fail.
12	The point scores, and the items on the list, clearly reflect Tom's
13	biases and are not necessarily those of the larger open-source community.
14

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2	<nowiki>
3
4	<p>This checklist is loosely derived from Tom "Spot" Callaway's Fail Score
5	blog post <a href="http://spot.livejournal.com/308370.html">
6	http://spot.livejournal.com/308370.html</a> (see also
7	<a href="http://www.theopensourceway.org/book/The_Open_Source_Way-How_to_tell_if_a_FLOSS_project_is_doomed_to_FAIL.html">[1]</a>).

8	Tom's original post assigned point scores to the various elements and
9	by adding together the individual points, the reader is supposed to be able
10	to judge the likelihood that the project will fail.
11	The point scores, and the items on the list, clearly reflect Tom's
12	biases and are not necessarily those of the larger open-source community.
13

M www/fossil-v-git.wiki

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283	283	Git lets you see "what came before". Fossil makes it just as
284	284	easy to also see "what came after".
285	285
286	286	Leaf check-ins in Git that lack a "ref" become "detached," making them
287	287	difficult to locate and subject to garbage collection. This
288		-[http://gitfaq.org/articles/what-is-a-detached-head.html\|detached head
	288	+[http://gitfaq.org/1/01/what-is-a-detached-head/\|detached head
289	289	state] problem has caused grief for
290	290	[https://www.google.com/search?q=git+detached+head+state \| many
291	291	Git users]. With
292	292	Fossil, detached heads are simply impossible because we can always find
293	293	our way back into the Merkle tree using one or more of the relations
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509	509	reporting on the state of the project and the work of its developers, so
510	510	that everyone — especially the project leader — can maintain a better
511	511	mental picture of what is happening, leading to better situational
512	512	awareness.
513	513
514		-By contrast, "…[https://guides.github.com/activities/forking\|forking is
	514	+By contrast, "…[https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/contributing-to-projects\|forking is
515	515	at the core of social coding at GitHub]". As of January 2022,
516	516	[https://github.com/search?q=is:public\|Github hosts 47 million distinct
517	517	software projects], most of which were created by forking a
518	518	previously-existing project. Since this is
519	519	[https://evansdata.com/reports/viewRelease.php?reportID=9 \| roughly
520	520

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283	Git lets you see "what came before". Fossil makes it just as
284	easy to also see "what came after".
285
286	Leaf check-ins in Git that lack a "ref" become "detached," making them
287	difficult to locate and subject to garbage collection. This
288	[http://gitfaq.org/articles/what-is-a-detached-head.html\|detached head
289	state] problem has caused grief for
290	[https://www.google.com/search?q=git+detached+head+state \| many
291	Git users]. With
292	Fossil, detached heads are simply impossible because we can always find
293	our way back into the Merkle tree using one or more of the relations
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509	reporting on the state of the project and the work of its developers, so
510	that everyone — especially the project leader — can maintain a better
511	mental picture of what is happening, leading to better situational
512	awareness.
513
514	By contrast, "…[https://guides.github.com/activities/forking\|forking is
515	at the core of social coding at GitHub]". As of January 2022,
516	[https://github.com/search?q=is:public\|Github hosts 47 million distinct
517	software projects], most of which were created by forking a
518	previously-existing project. Since this is
519	[https://evansdata.com/reports/viewRelease.php?reportID=9 \| roughly
520

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283	Git lets you see "what came before". Fossil makes it just as
284	easy to also see "what came after".
285
286	Leaf check-ins in Git that lack a "ref" become "detached," making them
287	difficult to locate and subject to garbage collection. This
288	[http://gitfaq.org/1/01/what-is-a-detached-head/\|detached head
289	state] problem has caused grief for
290	[https://www.google.com/search?q=git+detached+head+state \| many
291	Git users]. With
292	Fossil, detached heads are simply impossible because we can always find
293	our way back into the Merkle tree using one or more of the relations
	@@ -509,11 +509,11 @@
509	reporting on the state of the project and the work of its developers, so
510	that everyone — especially the project leader — can maintain a better
511	mental picture of what is happening, leading to better situational
512	awareness.
513
514	By contrast, "…[https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/contributing-to-projects\|forking is
515	at the core of social coding at GitHub]". As of January 2022,
516	[https://github.com/search?q=is:public\|Github hosts 47 million distinct
517	software projects], most of which were created by forking a
518	previously-existing project. Since this is
519	[https://evansdata.com/reports/viewRelease.php?reportID=9 \| roughly
520

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3	3	Interwiki links are a short-hand notation for links that target
4	4	external wikis or websites. For example, the following two
5	5	hyperlinks mean the same thing (assuming an appropriate [intermap](#intermap)
6	6	configuration):
7	7
8		- * [](wikipedia:Interwiki_links)
9		- * [](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_links)
	8	+ * [](wikipedia:MediaWiki#Interwiki_links)
	9	+ * [](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki#Interwiki_links)
10	10
11	11	Another example: The Fossil Forum is hosted in a separate repository
12	12	from the Fossil source code. This page is part of the
13	13	source code repository. Interwiki links can be used to more easily
14	14	refer to the forum repository:
15	15

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3	Interwiki links are a short-hand notation for links that target
4	external wikis or websites. For example, the following two
5	hyperlinks mean the same thing (assuming an appropriate [intermap](#intermap)
6	configuration):
7
8	* [](wikipedia:Interwiki_links)
9	* [](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_links)
10
11	Another example: The Fossil Forum is hosted in a separate repository
12	from the Fossil source code. This page is part of the
13	source code repository. Interwiki links can be used to more easily
14	refer to the forum repository:
15

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3	Interwiki links are a short-hand notation for links that target
4	external wikis or websites. For example, the following two
5	hyperlinks mean the same thing (assuming an appropriate [intermap](#intermap)
6	configuration):
7
8	* [](wikipedia:MediaWiki#Interwiki_links)
9	* [](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki#Interwiki_links)
10
11	Another example: The Fossil Forum is hosted in a separate repository
12	from the Fossil source code. This page is part of the
13	source code repository. Interwiki links can be used to more easily
14	refer to the forum repository:
15

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19	19	represented as n-dimensional membranes, mapping the spatial loci of
20	20	successive commits onto the projected manifold of each cloned
21	21	repository.</nowiki>
22	22
23	23	<blockquote>
24		-<i>Previously at
25		-[https://www.tartley.com/a-guide-to-git-using-spatial-analogies], since
26		-removed;<br>Quoted here: [https://lwn.net/Articles/420152/].</i>
	24	+<i>by Jonathan Hartley at
	25	+[https://www.tartley.com/posts/a-guide-to-git-using-spatial-analogies];
	26	+<br>Quoted here: [https://lwn.net/Articles/420152/].</i>
27	27	</blockquote>
28	28
29	29	<li>Git is not a Prius. Git is a Model T.
30	30	Its plumbing and wiring sticks out all over the place.
31	31	You have to be a mechanic to operate it successfully or you'll be
32	32

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19	represented as n-dimensional membranes, mapping the spatial loci of
20	successive commits onto the projected manifold of each cloned
21	repository.</nowiki>
22
23	<blockquote>
24	<i>Previously at
25	[https://www.tartley.com/a-guide-to-git-using-spatial-analogies], since
26	removed;<br>Quoted here: [https://lwn.net/Articles/420152/].</i>
27	</blockquote>
28
29	<li>Git is not a Prius. Git is a Model T.
30	Its plumbing and wiring sticks out all over the place.
31	You have to be a mechanic to operate it successfully or you'll be
32

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19	represented as n-dimensional membranes, mapping the spatial loci of
20	successive commits onto the projected manifold of each cloned
21	repository.</nowiki>
22
23	<blockquote>
24	<i>by Jonathan Hartley at
25	[https://www.tartley.com/posts/a-guide-to-git-using-spatial-analogies];
26	<br>Quoted here: [https://lwn.net/Articles/420152/].</i>
27	</blockquote>
28
29	<li>Git is not a Prius. Git is a Model T.
30	Its plumbing and wiring sticks out all over the place.
31	You have to be a mechanic to operate it successfully or you'll be
32

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1	1	<title>Reviews</title>
2	2	<b>External links:</b>
3	3
4		- * [http://nixtu.blogspot.com/2010/03/fossil-dvcs-on-go-first-impressions.html \|
	4	+ * [https://www.nixtu.info/2010/03/fossil-dvcs-on-go-first-impressions.html \|
5	5	Fossil DVCS on the Go - First Impressions]
6	6
7	7	<b>See Also:</b>
8	8
9	9	* [./quotes.wiki \| Short Quotes on Fossil, Git, And DVCSes]
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56	56	So I tried it out. The thing which bugged me most about it was having
57	57	to type "commit" or "com" instead of "ci" for checking in (as is
58	58	custom in all other systems I've used), despite the fact that fossil
59	59	uses "ci" as a filter in things like the timeline view. Looking back
60	60	now, I have used fossil for about about 95% of my work in the past
61		-year (http://blog.s11n.net/?p=71), in over 15 source trees, and I now
62		-get tripped up when I have to use svn or cvs.
	61	+year (<a href="http://blog.s11n.net/?p=71"><i>dead link</i></a>), in
	62	+over 15 source trees, and I now get tripped up when I have to use svn or cvs.
63	63
64	64	So, having got over typing "fossil com -m ...", here's why I love it so much...
65	65
66	66	Point #1: CGI
67	67
68	68

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1	<title>Reviews</title>
2	<b>External links:</b>
3
4	* [http://nixtu.blogspot.com/2010/03/fossil-dvcs-on-go-first-impressions.html \|
5	Fossil DVCS on the Go - First Impressions]
6
7	<b>See Also:</b>
8
9	* [./quotes.wiki \| Short Quotes on Fossil, Git, And DVCSes]
	@@ -56,12 +56,12 @@
56	So I tried it out. The thing which bugged me most about it was having
57	to type "commit" or "com" instead of "ci" for checking in (as is
58	custom in all other systems I've used), despite the fact that fossil
59	uses "ci" as a filter in things like the timeline view. Looking back
60	now, I have used fossil for about about 95% of my work in the past
61	year (http://blog.s11n.net/?p=71), in over 15 source trees, and I now
62	get tripped up when I have to use svn or cvs.
63
64	So, having got over typing "fossil com -m ...", here's why I love it so much...
65
66	Point #1: CGI
67
68

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1	<title>Reviews</title>
2	<b>External links:</b>
3
4	* [https://www.nixtu.info/2010/03/fossil-dvcs-on-go-first-impressions.html \|
5	Fossil DVCS on the Go - First Impressions]
6
7	<b>See Also:</b>
8
9	* [./quotes.wiki \| Short Quotes on Fossil, Git, And DVCSes]
	@@ -56,12 +56,12 @@
56	So I tried it out. The thing which bugged me most about it was having
57	to type "commit" or "com" instead of "ci" for checking in (as is
58	custom in all other systems I've used), despite the fact that fossil
59	uses "ci" as a filter in things like the timeline view. Looking back
60	now, I have used fossil for about about 95% of my work in the past
61	year (<a href="http://blog.s11n.net/?p=71"><i>dead link</i></a>), in
62	over 15 source trees, and I now get tripped up when I have to use svn or cvs.
63
64	So, having got over typing "fossil com -m ...", here's why I love it so much...
65
66	Point #1: CGI
67
68

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