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Re: A VFS layer - was: SCM ideas from 2003

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SFStéphane Fillod <fillods@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 19, 2005, 23:13 UTC
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Jon Seymour <jon.seymour <at> gmail.com> writes: [...]

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> It seems to me that file-orientation is here to stay and it would be 
> really cool to layer some kind of virtual filesystem over the git 
> repository so that different trees become transparently accessible via 
> different branches of a file system, e.g.: 
>     /mnt/gitfs/working                  # some kind of writeable virtual 
directory over the git cache 
>     /mnt/gitfs/c157067185209b50b350571fe762c2740ea13fc1  # read-only tree of 
commit c157... 
>     /mnt/gitfs/5b53d3a08d64198d26d4f2323f235790c04aeaab # read-only tree of 
comit 5b53... 
 
Ah, you mean wrapping the libgit in a FUSE plugin and let 
the Linux pagecache/dentry cache do the caching of on-demand 
inflated blobs and indexes? Would the hash be the "inode number"? 
 
 
--  
Stephane
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  3. A VFS layer - was: SCM ideas from 2003Jon Seymour, Apr 19, 2005
  4. Stéphane FillodApr 19, 2005

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