Fisheye is a revision-control browser and search engine owned by

Atlassian Atlassian Corporation () is an Australian software company that develops products for software developers, project managers and other software development teams. The company is domiciled in Delaware, with global headquarters in Sydney, Austra ...

, Inc. Although Fisheye is a commercial product, it is freely available to

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized so ...

projects and

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institutions. In addition to the advanced search and

diff In computing, the utility diff is a data comparison tool that computes and displays the differences between the contents of files. Unlike edit distance notions used for other purposes, diff is line-oriented rather than character-oriented, but ...

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 Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices. Email was thus conceived as the electronic (digital) version of, or counterpart to, mail, at a time when "mail" meant ...

or RSS

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 provides free licences of Fisheye and

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for open-source projects.

Integration

Fisheye supported integration with the following revision control systems: * CVS *

Git Git () is a distributed version control system: tracking changes in any set of files, usually used for coordinating work among programmers collaboratively developing source code during software development. Its goals include speed, data in ...

Mercurial Mercurial is a distributed revision control tool for software developers. It is supported on Microsoft Windows and Unix-like systems, such as FreeBSD, macOS, and Linux. Mercurial's major design goals include high performance and scalability, d ...

Perforce Perforce, legally Perforce Software, Inc., is an American developer of software used for developing and running applications, including version control software, web-based repository management, developer collaboration, application lifecycle man ...

Subversion Subversion () refers to a process by which the values and principles of a system in place are contradicted or reversed in an attempt to transform the established social order and its structures of power, authority, hierarchy, and social norms ...

Due to the resource-based URLs, it is possible to integrate Fisheye with different

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and

bug tracking system A bug tracking system or defect tracking system is a software application that keeps track of reported software bugs in software development projects. It may be regarded as a type of issue tracking system. Many bug tracking systems, such as tho ...

s. It also provides a

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and

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API. Fisheye also integrates with IDEs like

IntelliJ IDEA IntelliJ IDEA is an integrated development environment (IDE) written in Java for developing computer software written in Java, Kotlin, Groovy, and other JVM-based languages. It is developed by JetBrains (formerly known as IntelliJ) and is av ...

Fisheye IntelliJ Connector
/ref> via the Atlassian IDE Connector.

References

External links

* {{URL, https://atlassian.com/software/fisheye, the software's official website Atlassian products Browsers Proprietary cross-platform software Version control systems Java (programming language) software 2019 software

Use in open-source projects

Integration

See also

References

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