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Beanstalk vs Fossil: What are the differences?
Beanstalk: Private code hosting for teams. A single process to commit code, review with the team, and deploy the final result to your customers; Fossil: Simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management. Fossil is a software configuration management system. Fossil is software that is designed to control and track the development of a software project and to record the history of the project. There are many such systems in use today. Fossil strives to distinguish itself from the others by being extremely simple to setup and operate.
Beanstalk and Fossil can be categorized as "Code Collaboration & Version Control" tools.
Some of the features offered by Beanstalk are:
- Setup and manage repositories- Import or create Subversion and Git repositories that are instantly available to your team.
- Invite team members, partners & clients- Restrict access to certain repos and provide read-only or full read/write permissions.
- Browse files and changes- Every version of every file you’ve committed to Beanstalk is just a click away. See a timeline of who made changes and view the differences between revisions. Syntax highlighting for over 70 languages.
On the other hand, Fossil provides the following key features:
- Bug Tracking And Wiki
- Web Interface
- Autosync
Pros of Beanstalk
- Ftp deploy14
- Deployment9
- Easy to navigate8
- Code Editing4
- HipChat Integration4
- Integrations4
- Code review3
- HTML Preview2
- Security1
- Blame Tool1
- Cohesion1
Pros of Fossil
- Integrated Bug Tracking, Wiki and Tech Notes2
- Dead simple & single binary with tons of features1
- Strong and flexible1
- Cheap&intelligent1
- AutoSync - Reduces needless Merging and Forking1







