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

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

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> By the way RCS which I use for version control of single files use
>>> both approaches: it can store 'file,v' alongside 'file' (just like
>>> your '.zit.file/' or '.file.git/'), but it can also store files on
>>> per-directory basis in 'RCS/' subdirectory (proposed '.zit/file/' or
>>> '.zit/file.git/' solution)
>>
>> Indeed, there's not particular reason why both solutions shouldn't be
>> available. [...]
>
>> The only problem then is priority. When looking for a file's repo, do
>> we look at .file.git first, or .zit/file.git? How does RCS behave in
>> this case?
>
> rcsintro(1) states:
>
>  If you don't want to clutter your working directory with RCS files, create
>  a  subdirectory called RCS in your working directory, and move all your RCS
>  files there.  RCS commands will look *first* into that directory to find
>  needed files.

Cool. I pushed changes to this end to git.oblomov.eu/zit --now zit
will look for .zit/file.git first, then for .file.git; if neither is
found, and .zit/ exists, the repo is set to .zit/file.git, otherwise
it's set to .file.git

You can either manually mkdir .zit, or use zit init that does exactly
the same thing.

>>> By the way, it would be nice to have VC interface for Emacs for Zit...
>>
>> I'm afraid someone else will have to take care of that, since Emacs is
>> not really something I use.
>
> I'll try to hack it using contrib/emacs/vc-git.el as a base...

Cool, thanks.

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta