Fossil – Next Generation
I love fossil but I have so few opportunities to use it. Almost every project is on Github with a minority on bitbucket or gitlab and sharing code outside of those gardens (or even between them) always feels like an uphill battle. I&#x27;ve had to answer the &quot;why not just use github?&quot; question a lot of times. I think that there is actually value to be had in a sort of common town square of code in that it encourages a lot of good sharing, and I think Github has done a great job at doing that. But the downside of the monoculture is that it can leave the technology stagnant. Most people that I know that use git just know five or six incantations to do the most common things and carrying that knowledge for another VCS just seems like more overhead to them.<p>In a lot of ways fossil is pretty stable and hasn&#x27;t seen sweeping changes in a while. It hasn&#x27;t really needed them, but I&#x27;m glad that it&#x27;s getting some renewed interest