About the repository

Like many configuration management systems, Rational Team Concert™ source control makes use of a secure repository, hosted on a server, and accessed at a URL by clients using standard protocols. The repository stores objects such as streams, work items, and workspaces that help manage change flow. It also stores controlled artifacts that represent, and can be retrieved as, files or folders in a computer file system.

The repository is a secure database managed by the Jazz™ Team Server. It holds all of the objects required to support a team process, including components, workspaces, and team areas. Clients connect to a repository using HTTP.

Team members typically work with a mix of controlled artifacts and ordinary ones. In formal terms, a controlled artifact is an ordinary artifact (a file or directory in the client's file system) that has been checked in to a repository workspace. The principal distinguishing characteristic of a controlled artifact is that it is stored in the repository as a series of versions that are included in one or more change sets.

Versions of files are distinguished by changes in file contents, properties, file name, and containing folder. Files can be added, moved, renamed, modified and deleted. Versions of folders are distinguished by changes in folder name and location in a folder hierarchy. Folders can be added, moved, renamed and deleted.


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