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There are a lot of things which make Fossil attractive for solo and small developers.

An example would be the excellent diffing tools accessible through localhost, as well as things like issue tracking, which git doesn't understand as a concept.

There were some deal-breakers for me (kind of esoteric) and I switched back to git, but not without some annoyance.



The web interface is one of the main benefits in my opinion, especially if you develop on wsl2, on a server, or inside a container.




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