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I worked on ticgit a little too. It's such a neat idea, but I'm not sure how it would work in practice. I think git repos would be best for syncing, but not the main data store on GitHub.

I'm curious about using CouchDB, actually. It has similar versioning and replication features to git.

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If the storage API inside the project is good enough (something YABT's isn't yet), swapping out where it gets the data is a minor issue. You could use Git for the main storage, then have a web frontend that reads from Couch/Mongo/Redis/NewHotnessNotYetDiscovered and lazy loads from disk. A post-receive hook or two for expiring data in that cache and you're set.

Have you looked at ditz?

http://ditz.rubyforge.org/

Yup, I tried using it and ticgit for a little while. Didn't really care for either of them.

Yup - I tried a half dozen while thinking about starting YABT. None of them seemed to fit the bill just right.

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