A hosted home for Fossil repos. Wiki, tickets, forum, code — one SQLite file, one URL, one source of truth. Built for small-but-serious teams and the AI agents that work alongside them.
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Why Fossil
Fossil bundles version control, issues, wiki, forum, and unversioned attachments into a single self-contained SQLite file. No microservice sprawl. No "lose your data when you switch hosts" panic. No twelve-tab dashboard for what should be one project.
We're not chasing a 5,000-engineer monorepo. We're building the best home on the internet for the kind of project where the codebase, the spec, the bug list, and the design discussion all belong in the same place — owned by you, not a SaaS quarterly roadmap.
Code, tickets, wiki, and discussion in one queryable SQLite database. An agent reads the whole project context with SELECT * — not 47 GraphQL calls and a rate-limit. RAG and MCP become trivial.
Fossil has run mission-critical projects for 15+ years — including SQLite itself, the most-deployed database on the planet. This isn't a science experiment.
Issues, wiki, forum, tickets — all live in the repo. No "lose your data when you switch hosts" panic. Pull, push, sync between hosts; everything travels.
Immutable commits, real audit trail. Branches are cheap, rewrites are off — what shipped is what's in the log. Trunk-based or branch-heavy, both feel native.
Every project is a portable .fossil you can email, sync to a thumb drive, or stream to S3 continuously with Litestream. Per-repo storage is a rounding error — so we pass the savings on. Free tier means free tier, not a 14-day trial in disguise.
Don't like our service? fossil clone the URL. You walk away with a perfect mirror — issues, wiki, forum, the lot. Then run our omnibus on a $5 box. Your repo, your call.
self-host
fossilrepo.io is the all-in-one self-host. One command on your VPS gets you the full management plane (Django, Postgres, Redis, Celery), Caddy fronting it for SSL, and Litestream replicating every .fossil repo to S3 continuously. MIT licensed. Each project stays a portable single-file SQLite database you can clone, email, or hand off.
How the pieces fit:
fossil{forge|hub} = the hosted service (this).
fossilrepo.io = the open-source omnibus you run yourself.
fossilrepo.dev = nightlies of the same.
Same engine in all three.