From: "Giuseppe Bilotta" <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Sixt" <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Zit: the git-based single file content tracker
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:28:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb7bb73a0810230628l22871f3bj26cd825e2de99ff9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49007623.1060606@viscovery.net>
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> Giuseppe Bilotta schrieb:
>> Zit will create a directory .zit.file to hold a git repository
>> tracking the single file .zit.file/file, which is just a hard link to
>> file.
>
> git breaks hard links, mind you! (Just in case you check out older
> versions and you wonder why your "real" file is not updated).
>
> But there's a recent patch by Dscho floating around that takes care of the
> hard link case.
I feared that the hardlink choice was not the best one. I would
definitely prefer finding a solution that didn't depend on hardlinks:
not only there would be no worry about breaking them, it'd also be
more portable.
--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-23 13:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-23 1:29 [RFC] Zit: the git-based single file content tracker Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-23 12:33 ` Felipe Oliveira Carvalho
2008-10-23 12:50 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-10-23 13:33 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-23 13:51 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-10-23 14:21 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-23 13:03 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-10-23 13:28 ` Giuseppe Bilotta [this message]
2008-10-24 17:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-24 17:48 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-23 17:22 ` [RFC] Zit (v2): " Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-24 6:21 ` david
2008-10-24 7:14 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-24 10:43 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-24 11:01 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-26 15:20 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-26 21:18 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-26 22:04 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-26 22:16 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-23 23:23 ` [RFC] Zit: " Jean-Luc Herren
2008-10-24 6:55 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-24 10:31 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-24 10:52 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-24 11:32 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-24 12:15 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-24 18:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-24 19:11 ` david
2008-10-24 19:42 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-24 19:46 ` david
2008-10-24 19:51 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-24 19:54 ` david
2008-10-24 20:13 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-24 20:30 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-25 7:48 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-25 9:10 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-25 10:30 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-24 19:53 ` david
2008-10-24 20:06 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
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