Re: First round of UGFWIINI results

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 17, 2009, 23:51 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902180049540.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090217173957.GA22426@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, martin f krafft wrote:

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> also sprach Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> [2009.02.17.1747 +0100]:
> > a while ago I announced the UGFWIINI contest, a glorious battle of ideas
> > how to
> > 
> > 	Use Git For What It Is Not Indended
> > 
> > As most of you probably did not find my blog yet, this may come as a
> > surprise to you, but it will not be the only surprise in this email.
> 
> A shame that I didn't see the contest start. I would have had
> a number of cases to add using Git
> 
>   - to track your ~ (cf. http://vcs-home.madduck.net)
>   - to track /etc (cf. http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/etckeeper/)
>   - as the backend for a service like snapshot.debian.net
>   - as a mail store and complete replacement of IMAP
> 
> anyway, enter me for round 2!!

Sure!

But I deem the first two being trumped by the large media...

If you could point me to the IMAP thing, I'd be interested personally, as I use Git to track all my mails in maildir format.

Ciao, Dscho

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> > This is also related to Martin Krafft's idea to sort of replace the 
> > Debian packaging management by using Git, but...
> 
> I had this idea? Well, maybe something related: vcs-pkg.org, which
> is about using distributed VCS for distro package maintenance.

Yes, that's what I meant.

> Anyway, thanks Johannes for the fun! :)

You're very welcome!

Ciao, Dscho