Fisheye is a revision-control browser and search engine owned by Atlassian, Inc. Although Fisheye is a commercial product, it is freely available to open source projects and non-profit institutions. In addition to the advanced search and diff capabilities, it provides:
- the notion of changelog and changesets - even if the underlying version control system (such as CVS) does not support this
- direct, resource-based URLs down to line-number level
- monitoring and user-level notifications via e-mail or RSS
However, it lacks some basic capabilities that exist in other revision-control browsers (e.g. Trac, Redmine) such as being able to compare different revisions of a folder or compare two folders (such as branches and tags). This is widely seen as a critical omission and vastly reduces Fisheye's usefulness as a tool for managing the software release process.
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Use in open-source projects
Atlassian approves free licenses for community and open-source installations under certain conditions. Many major open source projects use FishEye to provide a front-end for the source code repository:
Atlassian and Contegix provide free deployments of Fisheye and Crucible for open-source projects. For large developer communities, dedicated instances are available to the public, either self-hosted or provided by the hosting service:
Integration
As of 2010 Fisheye supported integration with the following revision control systems:
- CVS
- Git
- Mercurial
- Perforce
- Subversion
Due to the resource-based URLs, it is possible to integrate Fisheye with different issue and bug tracking systems. It also provides a REST and XML-RPC API. Fisheye also integrates with IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA via the Atlassian IDE Connector.
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