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FishEye (software)

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 does not support this direct, resource-based URLs down to line-number level monitoring and user-level notifications via e-mail or RSS

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Fisheye
DeveloperAtlassian
Stable release
4.7.0 / February 14, 2019 (2019-02-14)
Written inJava
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeRevision control
LicenseProprietary; free for non-commercial
Websiteatlassian.com/software/fisheye

Fisheye is a revision-control browser1 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.2 In addition to the advanced search3 and diff capabilities,4 it provides:

  • the notion of changelog and changesets5 - even if the underlying version control system (such as CVS) does not support this
  • direct, resource-based URLs down to line-number level6
  • monitoring and user-level notifications via e-mail or RSS7

Use in open-source projects

Atlassian approves free licenses for community and open-source installations2 under certain conditions. Many major open source projects use Fisheye to provide a front-end for the source code repository:8

Project Fisheye
JBoss https://source.jboss.org
Apache https://fisheye.apache.org/browse

Atlassian provides free licences of Fisheye and Crucible for open-source projects.9


Integration

As of 2010 Fisheye supported integration with the following revision control systems:10

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 IDEA11 via the Atlassian IDE Connector.

See also

See also

References

References

  1. Fisheye Repository Browsing
  2. "FishEye Licensing - Atlassian". Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  3. "FishEye Search". Archived from the original on 2009-04-14. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  4. "FishEye Advanced Diffs". Archived from the original on 2009-04-11. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  5. "FishEye Changelog & Changesets". Archived from the original on 2009-04-14. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  6. Fisheye Communications
  7. Fisheye Notifications
  8. "The Firebird Project is now using Fisheye". Atlassian. 2008-10-30.
  9. Atlassian. "Fisheye - Pricing | Atlassian". Atlassian. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  10. "Supported platforms".
  11. "Fisheye IntelliJ Connector". Archived from the original on 2009-04-30. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
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