Checkpoint 0.1b2

Checkpoint is a simple version-control-system

Introduction

Checkpoint watches all the files in a directory (recursively), and allows you to revert your directory to any point in the past that you did a ‘commit’ to save your changes.

Why Make Another VCS?

While excellent Version Control Systems such as Bazaar and Mercurial already exist in python implementations, they are optimized for managing changes to source code using diffs. They can and do handle binary files, but binary file operations are not blazingly fast. From the Bazaar FAQ:

… [bazaar] is primarily a source code control system, not a media archive system. So it is not a priority to support enormous (hundred-megabyte) binaries or multi-gigabyte trees. There are other tools better suited to that.

Checkpoint was specifically designed to quickly manipulate binary files. Instead of using slow binary diffs, Checkpoint sacrifices some disk space in order to provide the fastest possible operations.

Also of great importance, the Checkpoint command-line utility is incredibly easy to understand, so regular users don’t have to learn complex VCS terminology and concepts.

Installation and Usage

Visit the Checkpoint project home for more information.