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Re: git guidance

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ABAl Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
Date
Nov 29, 2007, 05:27 UTC
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Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> 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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Message 8 of 9 in “Re: git guidance”
  1. Al BoldiNov 28, 2007
  2. Rogan DawesNov 28, 2007
  3. Johannes SchindelinNov 28, 2007
  4. Al BoldiNov 28, 2007
  5. Johannes SchindelinNov 28, 2007
  6. Al BoldiNov 28, 2007
  7. Jakub NarebskiNov 28, 2007
  8. Al BoldiNov 29, 2007
  9. Kyle MoffettNov 29, 2007

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