FishEye (software)

Fisheye
Developer(s) Atlassian
Stable release
4.2.0 / September 27, 2016 (2016-09-27)
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Revision control
License Proprietary; free for non-commercial
Website atlassian.com/software/fisheye

Fisheye is a revision-control browser[1] 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 search[3] and diff capabilities,[4] it provides:

  • the notion of changelog and changesets[5] - even if the underlying version control system (such as CVS) does not support this
  • direct, resource-based URLs down to line-number level[6]
  • monitoring and user-level notifications via e-mail or RSS[7]

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.[8]

Use in open-source projects

Atlassian approves free licenses for community and open-source installations[2] under certain conditions. Many major open source projects use Fisheye to provide a front-end for the source code repository:[9]

Project Fisheye
JBoss https://source.jboss.org

Atlassian provides free licences of Fisheye and Crucible for open-source projects.[10]


Integration

As of 2010 Fisheye supported integration with the following revision control systems:[11]

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[12] via the Atlassian IDE Connector.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Fisheye Repository Browsing
  2. 1 2 "FishEye Licensing - Atlassian".
  3. ↑ FishEye Search
  4. ↑ FishEye Advanced Diffs
  5. ↑ FishEye Changelog & Changesets
  6. ↑ Fisheye Communications
  7. ↑ Fisheye Notifications
  8. ↑ [FE-239] Compare selected revisions of a folder - Atlassian JIRA. Jira.atlassian.com. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
  9. ↑ "The Firebird Project is now using Fisheye". Atlassian. 2008-10-30.
  10. ↑ Atlassian. "Fisheye - Pricing | Atlassian". Atlassian. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  11. ↑ "Supported platforms".
  12. ↑ Fisheye IntelliJ Connector
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