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.title = "Fossil",
.author = "Martin Ashby",
.date = @date("2022-03-27T11:28:31+01:00"),
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I have switched to using [fossil SCM](https://fossil-scm.org) for managing the source code of this website. I am attracted to the idea of having a decentralized store not only for code but also for tickets, wiki, forums / chat, etc etc. Basically everything github provides, but capable of offline working.

Fossil is quite different to git, so I expect some learning curve. Starting with my own personal site is easy enough. I also have fossil running as a server on code.mfashby.net, and I might try to convert the old github repository into a mirror of the fossil.