Git as a filesystem

From: Peter Stahlir <peter.stahlir@googlemail.com>
Date: Sep 21, 2007, 10:51 UTC
Message-ID: <fbe8b1780709210351x30775090ldab559f25c27645d@mail.gmail.com>

Hi!

Is it possible/feasible to use git as a filesystem? Like having git on top of ext3.

This way I could do a gitfs-gc and there is only one pack file sitting on the disk which is a compressed version of the whole system. I am not interested in a version controlled filesystem, only in the space saving aspects.

Thanks,

Peter

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