From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Witten Subject: Re: File Systems and a Theory of Edits Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:56:53 -0000 Message-ID: <8f33c6bd053f4f89a2766c542773c38c-mfwitten@gmail.com> References: <23101-1312054868-691056@sneakemail.com> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "John M. Dlugosz" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jul 31 14:09:27 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 1QnUph-000781-Gs for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:09:25 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753387Ab1GaMF0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2011 08:05:26 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f42.google.com ([209.85.210.42]:33755 "EHLO mail-pz0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753377Ab1GaMFY (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2011 08:05:24 -0400 Received: by pzk37 with SMTP id 37so9567311pzk.1 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 05:05:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:date:from:to:cc:message-id:in-reply-to:references; bh=s7CbxHrckJ58gIfKuUi4oF+Tgci/HZ9JhnxCr/U5XDg=; b=E8eBvqFQ8yHHrZ0nf1XI+XBOSD34VszhO4g5uvqqrIpkEZlSZEv7f06ryhipk3X/UY YZv/scx0fEJAtrQxsFQOEcmaJXMKtKUxanD0Foynyt8a88FdhzHt6h5Dns2KLG11pNjy /M2EEdtqscEf9B+iNg+XHe1zxlchGccueB6dE= Received: by 10.68.22.103 with SMTP id c7mr1359079pbf.149.1312113924145; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 05:05:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gmail.com (zeller.torservers.net [74.120.12.135]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m7sm4310473pbk.54.2011.07.31.05.05.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 31 Jul 2011 05:05:22 -0700 (PDT) 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, 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 -- " >> "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. 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