From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:44:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Zit: the git-based single file content tracker
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810241943470.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <49007623.1060606@viscovery.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> Giuseppe Bilotta schrieb:
> > Zit will create a directory .zit.file to hold a git repository 
> > tracking the single file .zit.file/file, which is just a hard link to 
> > file.
> 
> git breaks hard links, mind you! (Just in case you check out older 
> versions and you wonder why your "real" file is not updated).
> 
> But there's a recent patch by Dscho floating around that takes care of 
> the hard link case.

Yep, I still want to work on it; it breaks on one of Junio's machines.

Ciao,
Dscho