From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexander Potashev Subject: Re: builtin-add.c patch Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:10:11 +0300 Message-ID: <20081210201011.GA11244@myhost> References: <200812101238.mBACcWQk023480@axiom-developer.org> <20081210142632.GA4137@myhost> <200812101914.mBAJEAS04718@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: root X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 10 21:11:13 2008 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 1LAVOh-0007fC-85 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:11:03 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752895AbYLJUJq (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:09:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752817AbYLJUJp (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:09:45 -0500 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.152]:53464 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752814AbYLJUJo (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:09:44 -0500 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 19so309765fgg.17 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:09:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:date:from:to:cc :subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=Il86nuH2p7VmzNaaZdUhD66PEn4EsgJYBAArz+m+c74=; b=cBI4i+wS8kDvG3elp0yugP5J41gqhqE6RyRpo88Dy285qxdMrfqWLnijFeMHpum8Ru eLgykm3iX0ejP1cOFuDi5WmJ3lOwmeSjqAk/ZxBWh+oxPb1Hp98f9fRQH8rWZC1c2xf7 j3eo2tMm5HWjJDWLJPG/N4XD7LZXeJpKE5wcA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=MPR50WKawUQGIH1rKR3NygHc140Vh0cRAhj+LUZdtBfLfJuDbkOI4y9tDiSB42EJ5l GUUtu4ipN78m78ApK06O9dUfQQqnqbW4v7mQyXcWxoDRZDIU/uAerwDtMrlNQqbn/ejx GmZDufqUSv+lpQfOPKjydE/abjSgRKDEhUcn4= Received: by 10.86.95.8 with SMTP id s8mr827882fgb.79.1228939782756; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:09:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.gmail.com ([91.78.206.93]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e11sm110455fga.32.2008.12.10.12.09.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:09:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by smtp.gmail.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:10:11 +0300 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200812101914.mBAJEAS04718@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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