Re: git guidance

From: Al Boldi
Date: Thu Nov 29 2007 - 00:27:55 EST


Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Al Boldi wrote:
> > Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >> By that definition, no SCM, not even CVS, is transparent. Nothing
> >> short of unpacked directories of all versions (wasting a lot of disk
> >> space) would.
> >
> > Who said anything about unpacking?
> >
> > I'm talking about GIT transparently serving a Virtual Version Control
> > dir to be mounted on the client.
>
> Are you talking about something like (in alpha IIRC) gitfs?
>
> http://www.sfgoth.com/~mitch/linux/gitfs/

This looks like a good start.

> Besides, you can always use "git show <revision>:<file>". For example
> gitweb (and I think other web interfaces) can show any version of a file
> or a directory, accessing only repository.

Sure, browsing is the easy part, but Version Control starts when things
become writable.


Thanks for the link!

--
Al

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