From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: git guidance Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:41:01 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <20071127235237.GF15227@1wt.eu> <200711282014.27299.a1426z@gawab.com> <200711282130.12864.a1426z@gawab.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 28 19:42:23 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IxRrK-0006oI-Oa for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:42:07 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753343AbXK1Slr (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:41:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752891AbXK1Slr (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:41:47 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:43173 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753168AbXK1Slq (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:41:46 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IxRqV-0004Zm-Or for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:41:15 +0000 Received: from abvr156.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl ([83.8.215.156]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:41:15 +0000 Received: from jnareb by abvr156.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:41:15 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Followup-To: gmane.comp.version-control.git,gmane.linux.kernel X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: abvr156.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl Mail-Copies-To: Jakub Narebski User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Al Boldi wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> By that definition, no SCM, not even CVS, is transparent. Nothing short >> of unpacked directories of all versions (wasting a lot of disk space) >> would. > > Who said anything about unpacking? > > I'm talking about GIT transparently serving a Virtual Version Control dir to > be mounted on the client. Are you talking about something like (in alpha IIRC) gitfs? http://www.sfgoth.com/~mitch/linux/gitfs/ Besides, you can always use "git show :". For example gitweb (and I think other web interfaces) can show any version of a file or a directory, accessing only repository. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git