From: Al Boldi Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:41:54 GMT Subject: Re: git guidance Message-ID: <200712081341.54589.a1426z@gawab.com> In-Reply-To: <7135.1197090987@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 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