Re: File Systems and a Theory of Edits

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 1, 2011, 01:22 UTC
Message-ID: <20110801012237.GA32509@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <23101-1312054868-691056@sneakemail.com>

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 02:40:57PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote:

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> On 7/30/2011 9:29 AM, Michael Nahas wrote:
> >For these commands to work, the git command will have to include an
> >argument that specifies which commit it operates on.  So some basic
> >ones might be:
> >     "git ls<commit>  -- <path>"
> >     "git cat<commit>  -- <path>"
> >(There exists "git ls-files", "git ls-tree", and "git cat-file" but
> 
> If you could "mount" a repository, then you would not need these
> commands at all.  It would be in fact a read-only file system.  Once
> mounted, the individual commits could be directories, and under that
> you explore in the usual way.

There are several (mostly fuse-based) tools listed on the wiki:

  https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools#Filesystem_interfaces

I've never used any of them, though. No idea how mature or usable they are.

Googling around also came up with this newer attempt:

  https://github.com/mfontani/git-fuse-perl

Again, no idea on the quality.

-Peff