Re: File Systems and a Theory of Edits

From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 31, 2011, 12:08 UTC
Message-ID: <8f33c6bd053f4f89a2766c542773c38c-mfwitten@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <23101-1312054868-691056@sneakemail.com>

On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:40:57 -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.

You can do this kind of thing with Avery Pennarun's most awesome `bup' tool, which is based on git, and it is indeed very useful.

See the whole thread here:

 Subject: Request: Auto-joining large files by 'bup fuse'
 Message-ID: <5f12a43ec3dc4250a7672725f5c172fc-mfwitten@gmail.com>
 http://groups.google.com/group/bup-list/browse_thread/thread/f80f56981853698b