5 engineers on Hacker News describe using Fossil first-hand: 4 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I've been using Fossil(and Git) since about the same time(late 2000s)”
endorse · personal · 17 yr · DASD · 2026-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I wasted a week of my life trying to fall in love with it”
regret · personal · buggymcbugfix · 2026-04-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A nice, self-contained tool that stores everything in a single file that can be easily backed up.”
endorse · personal · sieve · 2021-11-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For years, I have been using it for all sorts of personal record-keeping... Super-handy tool, with baked-in wiki and ticketing”
endorse · personal · interfixus · 2017-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“later on we moved to fossil as it's a more natural fit. It's perfect for small teams and it's cheap”
endorse · production · cydork · 2010-09-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?