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Re: git guidance

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 28, 2007, 18:41 UTC
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Al Boldi wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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>> By that definition, no SCM, not even CVS, is transparent.  Nothing short
>> of unpacked directories of all versions (wasting a lot of disk space)
>> would.
> 
> Who said anything about unpacking?
> 
> I'm talking about GIT transparently serving a Virtual Version Control dir to 
> be mounted on the client.
Are you talking about something like (in alpha IIRC) gitfs?
  http://www.sfgoth.com/~mitch/linux/gitfs/

Besides, you can always use "git show <revision>:<file>". For example gitweb (and I think other web interfaces) can show any version of a file or a directory, accessing only repository.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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  1. Al BoldiNov 28, 2007
  2. Rogan DawesNov 28, 2007
  3. Johannes SchindelinNov 28, 2007
  4. Al BoldiNov 28, 2007
  5. Johannes SchindelinNov 28, 2007
  6. Al BoldiNov 28, 2007
  7. Jakub NarebskiNov 28, 2007
  8. Al BoldiNov 29, 2007
  9. Kyle MoffettNov 29, 2007

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