What Is Fossil?

Fossil is a simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration
management system with these advanced features:

1. Project Management –
   In addition to doing distributed version control
   like Git and Mercurial,
   Fossil also supports bug tracking,
   wiki, forum,
   email alerts, chat, and
   technotes.

2. Built-in Web Interface –
   Fossil has a built-in, themeable, extensible,
   and intuitive web interface
   with a rich variety of information pages
   (examples) promoting situational awareness.

   This entire website is just a running instance of Fossil.
   The pages you see here are all wiki or
   embedded documentation or (in the case of
   the download page)
   unversioned files.
   When you clone Fossil from one of its
   self-hosting repositories,
   you get more than just source code – you get this entire website.

3. All-in-one –
   Fossil is a single self-contained, stand-alone executable.
   To install, simply download a
   precompiled binary
   for Linux, Mac, or Windows and put it on your $PATH.
   Easy-to-compile source code is also available.

4. Self-host Friendly – Stand up a project website
   in minutes using a variety of techniques.
   Fossil is CPU and memory efficient. Most projects can be
   hosted comfortably