Fossil SCM

Linked to the new material showing Fossil's idea of user power hierarchy from the comment in fossil-v-git.wiki about Fossil's support for the organization's social and power hierarchies. It's not that Fossil has *no* support for enforcing this, it's that it's usually a fairly loose match between the two systems. This is an important point, because some people new to Fossil expect 1:1 mapping and get disappointed when we tell them it just doesn't do that.

wyoung 2019-08-29 00:21 caps-doc
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"[https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Distributed-Workflows#_dictator_and_lieutenants_workflow|dictator
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and lieutenants]" hierarchy as with Linux kernel contributions. D.
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Richard Hipp rarely overrides decisions made by those he has trusted
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with commit access on his repositories. Fossil allows you to give
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[./caps/admin-v-setup.md|some users] more power over what
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- they can do with the repository, but Fossil does not otherwise
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- directly support the enforcement of a development organization's
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+ they can do with the repository, but Fossil [./caps/index.md#ucap |
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+ only loosely supports] the enforcement of a development organization's
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social and power hierarchies. Fossil is a great fit for
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_organization|flat
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organizations].</p></li>
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<li><p><b>No easy drive-by contributions:</b> Git
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326 "[https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Distributed-Workflows#_dictator_and_lieutenants_workflow|dictator
327 and lieutenants]" hierarchy as with Linux kernel contributions. D.
328 Richard Hipp rarely overrides decisions made by those he has trusted
329 with commit access on his repositories. Fossil allows you to give
330 [./caps/admin-v-setup.md|some users] more power over what
331 they can do with the repository, but Fossil does not otherwise
332 directly support the enforcement of a development organization's
333 social and power hierarchies. Fossil is a great fit for
334 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_organization|flat
335 organizations].</p></li>
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337 <li><p><b>No easy drive-by contributions:</b> Git
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326 "[https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Distributed-Workflows#_dictator_and_lieutenants_workflow|dictator
327 and lieutenants]" hierarchy as with Linux kernel contributions. D.
328 Richard Hipp rarely overrides decisions made by those he has trusted
329 with commit access on his repositories. Fossil allows you to give
330 [./caps/admin-v-setup.md|some users] more power over what
331 they can do with the repository, but Fossil [./caps/index.md#ucap |
332 only loosely supports] the enforcement of a development organization's
333 social and power hierarchies. Fossil is a great fit for
334 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_organization|flat
335 organizations].</p></li>
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337 <li><p><b>No easy drive-by contributions:</b> Git
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