From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9cinaux?= Subject: Re: Libification project (SoC) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:46:56 +0100 Message-ID: <1174297616.5884.42.camel@mejai> References: <20070316042406.7e750ed0@home.brethil> <20070316060033.GD31606@spearce.org> <7vps79wueu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20070316130958.GD1783@peter.daprodeges.fqdn.th-h.de> <20070318140816.GG4489@pasky.or.cz> <20070319012111.GS18276@pasky.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Marco Costalba X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 19 10:47:04 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HTESE-0003OZ-I1 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:47:02 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753765AbXCSJrA (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:47:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753764AbXCSJq7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:46:59 -0400 Received: from serv108.segi.ulg.ac.be ([139.165.32.111]:59197 "EHLO serv108.segi.ulg.ac.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752607AbXCSJq7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:46:59 -0400 Received: (qmail 23457 invoked by uid 510); 19 Mar 2007 10:46:56 +0100 Received: from 83.182.28.64 by serv108.segi.ulg.ac.be (envelope-from , uid 501) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (clamdscan: 0.90/2867. Clear:RC:1(83.182.28.64):. Processed in 0.015643 secs); 19 Mar 2007 09:46:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [10.0.0.14]) (s020908@[83.182.28.64]) (envelope-sender ) by serv108.segi.ulg.ac.be (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 19 Mar 2007 10:46:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 08:01 +0100, Marco Costalba wrote: > I' have tried to do the list myself, but I found only viewers ;-) > among _currently_ tools I know of, and all the viewers allow loading > in background _now_ so will not be portable to libgit without main > surgery, read multi-thread (BTW none is currently multi-thread). I thought about configuration tools (gconf, kconfig, etc), that could then implement something similar to what the recovery system of WinXP does: they could store an history of the configuration state, and then recover a previous state if things go wrong. This would be incredibly useful for system administrators. Also, more generally, git can be used as a versioned storage system without direct link to source control. I'm thinking about ikiwiki for instance. More SCM-oriented, a cron script that manages a website by checkouting several repositories (one for the wiki module, another for the blog module, another for the forum, etc) using, say, the python bindi There are probably a zillion other possible uses. The common thing when exposing an API is that it ends up being used in a way nobody had thought of. So it's dangerous to say "it's useless" or "nobody will do it". You can be sure someone will, it's just a matter of time.