Project info for Katie

Created 8 Jan 2001 at 00:37 UTC by Geoffrey.

Homepage: http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/katie/

Notes:

Katie is a GPL'd revision control system, somewhat like a cross between CVS and NFS. It is inspired by the (expensive, proprietary, but quite good) ClearCase.

The most-cool feature about Katie is that the repository is mounted as a filesystem -- this leads to a few neat things:

The equivalent of 'cvs checkout' is nearly instantaneous as there is no need to download any files.
Access to previous versions of files can be done through the filesystem using standard Unix commands. For example, rather than 'cvs diff -r1.1 -r1.2 myfile', you can do 'diff myfile@@/main/[12]' ('myfile@@' is a hidden directory containing the entire revision history of 'myfile').

Another nice feature is that directories are versioned just like regular files, so if you delete a file, you can go back and see it just by looking at a previous version of the directory (again, through the filesystem, no new commands are needed).

License: GPL

This project has the following developers:

Geoffrey is a Lead Developer.

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