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Use case: GIT to manage transactions in a CMS?

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JIJ. David Ibáñez <jdavid@itaapy.com>
Date
Feb 15, 2006, 10:44 UTC
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Hello,

I am working on a project (a content management system) where the data is stored as files and folders.

Currently, for persistance and transactions we use the ZODB [1] object database. But our goal is to move away from the ZODB and use directly the file system, as it will allow us to use all the good unix tools.

We are using git to manage the source code. And now we are exploring git to see if it can do the job of transactions, so that each transaction in the system will be a git commit.

One problem we have found is that we can not commit empty directories (what we need to do). Any idea how to solve or work-around this constraint?

Any suggestions and input on this exotic use case for git will be very welcomed.

[1] http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/FrontPage
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