From: Alexander Potashev <aspotashev@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:10:11 GMT
Subject: Re: builtin-add.c patch
Message-ID: <20081210201011.GA11244@myhost>
In-Reply-To: <200812101914.mBAJEAS04718@localhost.localdomain>

Hello, Tim!

On 14:14 Wed 10 Dec     , root wrote:
> Alexander,
> 
> I saw a suggestion that git could be used as a filesystem rather
> than as a code repository. I'm looking to convert it for this
> purpose to sit underneath Axiom, a computer algebra system written
> in common lisp. Basically the idea is that a "close" operation does
> a 'git add foo ; git commit'. 
> 
> Are you aware of anyone who has used git as a filesystem?
> 
> Tim Daly
> 

It's a quite off-topic question. But Git is not optimized to track
individual files with separate history
( see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dhZ9BXQgc4 ).
Also, Git uses only 644 and 755 permissions (755 stands for
executables, often scripts - shell scripts, perl, ...), but
usual filesystems provide full range of premissions/ownership.

                                 Alexander