I love Fossil and I use it for my projects. I understand why it isn't for everyone, but considering I am the sole developer on the stuff I make (and I agree with Dr. Hipp about the drawbacks of rebase), it's perfect for my needs. Lightweight, has its own integrated web server and forge features should I need them, and it's dead easy to use. It isn't the one VCS to rule them all (no such thing exists, really), but I do encourage people to check it out because they might fall in love like I did.
What happens if you make a mistake while committing - maybe forget the file, or commit wrong one?
Fossil has no way to fix it, by design, and I find it an absolute showstopper. I do stupid mistakes all the time, and I am so glad that gits lets me fix those.
"Fossil purposely makes it difficult for users to delete content."
Those operations are explicitly declared special, not something you do many times per day because you had a typo in your print statement. I guess technically you can do it often, but the tooling does not make it easy at all, and you are going against program's recommended best practices.
> What happens if you make a mistake while committing - maybe forget the file, or commit wrong one?
Then you have proven that you are human.
> Fossil has no way to fix it, by design,
As an 18-year-long contributor to fossil i can assure you that this is absolutely not true. Fossil can amend any checkin and it can move checkins to other branches. Go to sqlite.org/src/timeline?r=mistake to see many examples of where human failing has been both demonstrated and accounted for without breaking anything.
14 "mistakes" in the entire 2025. I am probably making that many per week? Not to mention committing the intentionally broken stuff, with the expectation that I'll come back and amend if I decided it should go to main.
