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Re: A tracking tree for the active work space

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Mar 11, 2007, 20:15 UTC
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"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:
> Reading the other thread on tracking temporary changes made me think
> of using inotify with git. The basic idea would be to a daemon running
> that uses inotify to listen for changes in the working tree. As these
> changes happen they get committed to a tracking tree.

I think it is an interesting idea, but can be used with any SCM not just git ;-).

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