A tracking tree for the active work space

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.

The tracking tree serves two purposes. First it is a good way to recover from programmer error. I have definitely written big chunks of code, discarded them, and then realized later that they were the right solution and had to write them again.

The tracking tree also makes a 'git grep' for uncommitted changes easier to implement since the changes are always committed with this model. For dual processors the inverted index can be computed in parallel with editing.

Of course this daemon needs some smarts. You don't want it generating a delta the hard way from a git check out of a different workspace It will also make real check-ins instant since you just copy the tip of the tacking tree.