From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Al Boldi Subject: Re: git guidance Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:27:04 +0300 Message-ID: <200711290827.04950.a1426z@gawab.com> References: <20071127235237.GF15227@1wt.eu> <200711282130.12864.a1426z@gawab.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 29 06:28:01 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IxbwO-0006hl-Bz for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:28:00 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751451AbXK2F1j (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:27:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751339AbXK2F1j (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:27:39 -0500 Received: from [212.12.190.53] ([212.12.190.53]:33766 "EHLO raad.intranet" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750857AbXK2F1i (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:27:38 -0500 Received: from localhost ([10.0.0.111]) by raad.intranet (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA13125; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:27:15 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 In-Reply-To: <200711282130.12864.a1426z@gawab.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Narebski wrote: > Al Boldi wrote: > > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > >> 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/ This looks like a good start. > Besides, you can always use "git show :". For example > gitweb (and I think other web interfaces) can show any version of a file > or a directory, accessing only repository. Sure, browsing is the easy part, but Version Control starts when things become writable. Thanks for the link! -- Al