Small Teams Lack a Unified Hosted SCM Combining Code, Issues, Wiki, and History
Small engineering teams using Git and GitHub manage code, issues, wikis, and history across fragmented tools. The author proposes Fossil SCM as an alternative where every clone is a self-contained SQLite file. This is an Ask HN product validation post, not a direct user pain report.
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