From: Michael Witten Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:21:27 GMT Subject: Re: File Systems and a Theory of Edits Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 14:15, Michael Nahas 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.