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From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
To: "John M. Dlugosz" <ngnr63q02@sneakemail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File Systems and a Theory of Edits
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:56:53 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8f33c6bd053f4f89a2766c542773c38c-mfwitten@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23101-1312054868-691056@sneakemail.com>

On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:40:57 -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<commit>  -- <path>"
>>      "git cat<commit>  -- <path>"
>> (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.

You can do this kind of thing with Avery Pennarun's
most awesome `bup' tool, which is based on git, and
it is indeed very useful.

See the whole thread here:

 Subject: Request: Auto-joining large files by 'bup fuse'
 Message-ID: <5f12a43ec3dc4250a7672725f5c172fc-mfwitten@gmail.com>
 http://groups.google.com/group/bup-list/browse_thread/thread/f80f56981853698b

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-31 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-30 14:29 File Systems and a Theory of Edits Michael Nahas
2011-07-30 19:06 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-07-31  8:15   ` René Scharfe
     [not found]     ` <CADo4Y9gU_Z73gCPCESvVZhLOJUJg+mTqHkeqpNv2L8xLJvKxEQ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-07-31 14:15       ` Michael Nahas
2011-07-31 17:21         ` Michael Witten
2011-07-31 21:13           ` Michael Nahas
2011-07-31 22:20             ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-31 22:39               ` Michael Nahas
2011-08-01 12:01             ` Michael Nahas
2011-07-31 16:16       ` René Scharfe
2011-08-01  1:04     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-01 11:14       ` Michael Nahas
2011-07-30 19:40 ` John M. Dlugosz
2011-07-31 11:56   ` Michael Witten [this message]
2011-08-01  1:22   ` Jeff King

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