From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: File Systems and a Theory of Edits Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:22:38 -0600 Message-ID: <20110801012237.GA32509@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <23101-1312054868-691056@sneakemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "John M. Dlugosz" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 01 03:22:46 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QnhDS-0005Po-Ev for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 03:22:46 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753094Ab1HABWm (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:22:42 -0400 Received: from 99-108-226-0.lightspeed.iplsin.sbcglobal.net ([99.108.226.0]:36877 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751897Ab1HABWl (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:22:41 -0400 Received: (qmail 13274 invoked by uid 107); 1 Aug 2011 01:23:13 -0000 Received: from S010690840de80b38.ss.shawcable.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (70.64.172.81) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:23:13 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:22:38 -0600 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <23101-1312054868-691056@sneakemail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 02:40:57PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: > On 7/30/2011 9:29 AM, Michael Nahas wrote: > >For these commands to work, the git command will have to include an > >argument that specifies which commit it operates on. So some basic > >ones might be: > > "git ls -- " > > "git cat -- " > >(There exists "git ls-files", "git ls-tree", and "git cat-file" but > > If you could "mount" a repository, then you would not need these > commands at all. It would be in fact a read-only file system. Once > mounted, the individual commits could be directories, and under that > you explore in the usual way. There are several (mostly fuse-based) tools listed on the wiki: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools#Filesystem_interfaces I've never used any of them, though. No idea how mature or usable they are. Googling around also came up with this newer attempt: https://github.com/mfontani/git-fuse-perl Again, no idea on the quality. -Peff