From: Al Boldi Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:14:27 GMT Subject: Re: git guidance Message-ID: <200711282014.27299.a1426z@gawab.com> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, Hi! git@vger sometimes bounces, so let's leave lkml as backup. > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Rogan Dawes wrote: > > Al Boldi wrote: > > > Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > > It should not turn into an endless thread led by people who want to > > > > redefine GIT's roadmap, but experience sharing helps a lot with GIT. > > > > > > Well, now that you mentioned it, if there is one thing I dislike, it's > > > for version control to start mutilating your sources. Version Control > > > should be completely transparent. GIT isn't. > > > > Care to explain? Git is quite happy handling arbitrary binary content, > > so I find it difficult to believe that it is changing your source code > > in strange ways. > > It is nice of you to ask him to explain: Unless this handwaving claim is > substantiated, it is quite hard to argue with. Sure, the problem with GIT is that it stores the sources inside a backend container that is only accessible via GIT; iow, you can't retrieve your sources directly / transparently. One way to achieve transparency could be to allow mounting GIT on a dir-mount point. And just use that dir normally, while GIT manages all the rest in the background. Thanks! -- Al