From: John M. Dlugosz <ngnr63q02@sneakemail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 19:40:57 GMT
Subject: Re: File Systems and a Theory of Edits
Message-ID: <23101-1312054868-691056@sneakemail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CADo4Y9hG=-Bye5g7OWROJNbbUOcnH0hj0f3csws5V+YzEUKAMg@mail.gmail.com>

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.