Fossil is more like a Jira replacement, and its built by one person with a severe case of NIH. Not necessarily a bad thing but I lived through it with Ubuntu, not really a fan of this philosophy.

Learned fossil in college and I intensely disliked it

• open-source
• Ticketing
• Cathedral-style coding isn't very Open-Source, if you believe the man who wrote the book and coined the term.
• it's okay to post your own words instead of drunkenly jamming HTML into Markdown.

I love Fossil and use it for all my personal projects! I use syncthing to keep my all my repositories updated across devices and it works great!

I do wish I better understood either self-hosting or that there were more web hosts though, it would make collaboration easier when I feel like sharing. A git(hub) bridge could do it too I guess...

I really like the idea of using a relation db to track change history. It removes so much weirdness and quirkiness that git has. You just have regular SQL queries you can use to go through history and ask questions about the state of the repo. I also like that it's immutable so you don't have to worry about things like rebasing and other ways you can fuck up history in git. The problems solved by mucking with history largely go away when you can query the db with a rich syntax.

What about git needs replacement?

Spent 5 minutes on the website and couldn't get a peek at their code... The most fundamental thing, IMO.

I support reconsidering Git VCS hegemony. Darcs & Pijul too for DVCS.