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Fossil vs GitBucket: What are the differences?
- Hosting: Fossil comes with a built-in web interface for managing repositories, while GitBucket requires additional installation and setup of a separate web server like Apache or Nginx for hosting repositories.
- Built-in Wiki: Fossil includes a built-in wiki system for documentation and notes, while GitBucket does not have a built-in wiki feature, requiring users to use external tools for documentation.
- Ticketing System: Fossil provides an integrated ticketing system for issue tracking and project management, whereas GitBucket lacks this feature and relies on third-party integrations for issue management.
- Merge Workflow: Fossil follows an "autosync" merge strategy by default, automatically pushing changes to the remote repository, while GitBucket uses a more manual approach, requiring developers to manually push and pull changes.
- Accessibility: Fossil is designed to be a self-contained, single executable file, making it easier to set up and use compared to GitBucket, which requires multiple components and dependencies for installation and configuration.
- Community Support: GitBucket has a larger community and ecosystem, with more plugins and integrations available, while Fossil has a smaller user base and fewer third-party extensions.
In Summary, Fossil and GitBucket differ in hosting capabilities, built-in features like wikis and ticketing systems, merge workflows, accessibility, and community support.
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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
Pros of GitBucket
- Self hosted8
- Open source7
- Familiar interface6
- Simple setup5
- Scala5
- Cross platform2
- SSH keys1
- Gists1
- Free1
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What is Fossil?
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.
What is GitBucket?
GitBucket provides a Github-like UI and features such as Git repository hosting via HTTP and SSH, repository viewer, issues, wiki and pull request.
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Git
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GitHub
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GitLab
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Bitbucket
Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test and deploy, all with free private Git repositories. Teams choose Bitbucket because it has a superior Jira integration, built-in CI/CD, & is free for up to 5 users.