- Related Work: projects and links related to Fossil and version control.
- Documentation index with full text search.
- Testimonials from satisfied Fossil users and Quotes about Fossil and other DVCSes.
- Frequently Asked Questions
- The concepts behind Fossil. Another viewpoint.
- Quick Start guide to using Fossil.
- Questions & Criticisms directed at Fossil.
- Compiling and Installing
- Fossil supports embedded documentation that is versioned along with project source code.
- Fossil uses an enduring file format that is designed to be readable, searchable, and extensible by people not yet born.
- A tutorial on branching, what it means and how to do it using Fossil.
- The automatic self-check mechanism helps insure project integrity.
- Fossil contains a built-in wiki.
- An Event is a special kind of wiki page associated with a point in time rather than a name.
- Settings control the behaviour of Fossil.
- Use SSL to encrypt communication with the server.
- The Fossil forum is, as of mid-2018, the project's central communication channel. The read-only mailing list archives house discussions spanning Fossil's first decade.
- Performance statistics taken from real-world projects hosted on Fossil.
- How to delete content from a Fossil repository.
- How Fossil does password management.
- On-line help.
- List of TH1 commands provided by Fossil itself that expose its key functionality to TH1 scripts.
- List of TH1 hooks exposed by Fossil that enable customization of commands and web pages.
- A free hosting server for Fossil repositories is available at http://chiselapp.com/.
- How to set up a server for your repository.
- Customizing the ticket system.
- Methods to identify a specific check-in.
- Import and export from and to Git.
- Fossil versus Git.
- Up and running in 5 minutes as a single user (contributed by Gilles Ganault on 2013-01-08).
- How Fossil defends against abuse by spiders and bots.
- Using Fossil on WSL, caveats and guidance.