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Richard Hipp returns (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

CHAPTER

The Difference Between Git and Fossil

With git, if you got multiple people working on the same project, everybody's got their own master or mane oror whatever they call it these days. But with fossil we use the term trunk, and there's only one trunk. And so given a point in time, we can see what's going onin all branches simultaneously, both forwards and backwards. It's a very powerful feature to maintain situation awareness. Once you start using these feet, this powerful feature of being able to see what comes next, what came after this check in, it is hard to go back without them.

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