Re: First round of UGFWIINI results

From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date: Feb 17, 2009, 17:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20090217173957.GA22426@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902171745320.6185@intel-tinevez-2-302>

also sprach Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> [2009.02.17.1747 +0100]:

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> a while ago I announced the UGFWIINI contest, a glorious battle of ideas
> how to
> 
> 	Use Git For What It Is Not Indended
> 
> As most of you probably did not find my blog yet, this may come as a
> surprise to you, but it will not be the only surprise in this email.

A shame that I didn't see the contest start. I would have had a number of cases to add using Git

  - to track your ~ (cf. http://vcs-home.madduck.net)
  - to track /etc (cf. http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/etckeeper/)
  - as the backend for a service like snapshot.debian.net
  - as a mail store and complete replacement of IMAP

anyway, enter me for round 2!!

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> Avery Pennarun explains his endeavor of tracking windows with
> git... "If I get a virus, I can 'git revert' it."
> http://alumnit.ca/~apenwarr/log/?m=200901#21
>  
> Sverre remarks: "It even beats the way we use Git to track the
> MSys installation in msysgit.git..."
> 
> This is also related to Martin Krafft's idea to sort of replace
> the Debian packaging management by using Git, but...

I had this idea? Well, maybe something related: vcs-pkg.org, which is about using distributed VCS for distro package maintenance. More Debian-specific is my goal to replace source packages with services that build straight from trees identified by Git tags, which I've written a bit about here:

  http://madduck.net/blog/2005.08.11:rcs-uploads/

This is up high on my list of todos, so expect more on this topic soon.

Anyway, thanks Johannes for the fun! :)

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