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Re: File Systems and a Theory of Edits

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Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
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Jul 31, 2011, 17:21 UTC
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On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 14:15, Michael Nahas <mike.nahas@gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe the solution for xargs may be John D.'s solution - to
> "mount" the snapshot as a file system.  And the "mount" command in git
> is "git checkout".  (Now, I almost want to rename "git checkout" to
> "git remount"!)

Why not just `git mount', though? We could have different mount points too, so that it's easy to work with multiple `snapshots' at once (in the spirit of bazaar and mercurial, as well).

Perhaps `git umount' could be used to make the repository bare.

In any case, I always find myself wishing that the standard interfaces would make it easier to base an operation on a snapshot that is not yet mounted as the working tree. It can be quite cumbersome to switch the contents of the working tree.

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  3. René ScharfeJul 31, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 1, 2011
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  7. Michael WittenJul 31, 2011
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