Will Git Be Around Forever? A List of Possible Successors
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Compares Fossil, Plastic SCM and Pijul by exercising each on the same repo and checking what actually works: Fossil: bundled issue tracker and wiki with simple replication, Plastic: performant branching and large-binary support with a central server option, Pijul: patch-based merge model that avoids many conflicts in practice. Shows cloning, branching, rename detection, and merge outcomes side‑by‑side and reports which features are missing, awkward, or ready to replace Git.
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