Re: [RFC] Zit: the git-based single file content tracker

["Giuseppe Bilotta" <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/23/08, Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  > On 10/23/08, Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  >>  The principle is extremely simple: when you choose to start tracking a
>>  >>  file with Zit,
>>  >>
>>  >>  zit track file
>>  >>
>>  >>  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.
>>  >
>>  > Why not use one .zit repo and track each file on each own branch?.
>>
>>
>> So your proposal is to have a single .zit repo which is actually a git
>>  repo and where each additional tracked file becomes its own branch,
>>  and zit would take care of switching from branch to branch when zit
>>  commands are called?
>
> I don't know if switching is necessary. With one file per pranch, the
> index is even not necessary.

[...]

> The history should be linear. Git (or zit) repository is just a
> container for git branches. Each branch contains only one file. Moving
> a file history is equivalent to "git push" + "git branch -D".
> Something like this (not tested):
>
> cd dst
> git init
> cd src
> git push dst local-branch:remote-branch
> git branch -D local-branch
> git gc

Looks a little too clumsy for my taste. Also, I don't like the idea of
having to enforce linear history for files, or getting rid of the
index. I would like zit to be as lightweight a wrapper for git as
possible, retaining the whole functionality.





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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta