From: Alexander Potashev <aspotashev@gmail.com>
To: root <daly@axiom-developer.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: builtin-add.c patch
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:10:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081210201011.GA11244@myhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200812101914.mBAJEAS04718@localhost.localdomain>
Hello, Tim!
On 14:14 Wed 10 Dec , root wrote:
> Alexander,
>
> I saw a suggestion that git could be used as a filesystem rather
> than as a code repository. I'm looking to convert it for this
> purpose to sit underneath Axiom, a computer algebra system written
> in common lisp. Basically the idea is that a "close" operation does
> a 'git add foo ; git commit'.
>
> Are you aware of anyone who has used git as a filesystem?
>
> Tim Daly
>
It's a quite off-topic question. But Git is not optimized to track
individual files with separate history
( see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dhZ9BXQgc4 ).
Also, Git uses only 644 and 755 permissions (755 stands for
executables, often scripts - shell scripts, perl, ...), but
usual filesystems provide full range of premissions/ownership.
Alexander
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-10 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-10 12:38 builtin-add.c patch daly
2008-12-10 14:26 ` Alexander Potashev
2008-12-10 16:01 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2008-12-10 19:10 ` root
2008-12-10 22:27 ` [PATCH (resend)] Fix typo in comment in builtin-add.c Alexander Potashev
2008-12-10 23:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-10 19:14 ` builtin-add.c patch root
2008-12-10 20:10 ` Alexander Potashev [this message]
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