Re: git guidance
From: Al Boldi
Date: Sat Dec 08 2007 - 05:45:04 EST
Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:56:21 +0300, Al Boldi said:
> > It probably goes without saying, that gitfs should have some basic
> > configuration file to setup its transparent behaviour
>
> But then it's not *truly* transparent, is it?
Don't mistake transparency with some form of auto-heuristic. Transparency
only means that it inserts functionality without impeding your normal
workflow.
> And that leaves another question - if you make a config file that excludes
> all the .o files - then what's backing the .o files? Those data blocks
> need to be *someplace*. Maybe you can do something ugly like use unionfs
> to combine your gitfs with something else to store the other files...
Or any number of other possible implementation scenarios...
> But at that point, you're probably better off just creating a properly
> designed versioning filesystem.
But gitfs is not about designing a versioning filesystem, it's about
designing a transparent interface into git to handle an SCM use-case.
Thanks!
--
Al
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