From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [RFC] Zit: the git-based single file content tracker Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:31:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <4901077A.7050904@gmx.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Jean-Luc Herren" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Giuseppe Bilotta" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 24 12:32:37 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KtJy5-0006uu-EJ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:32:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751059AbYJXKbV (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:31:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750808AbYJXKbV (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:31:21 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.187]:9429 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751087AbYJXKbU (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:31:20 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d3so326064nfc.21 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:31:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received :x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:in-reply-to :message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:date; bh=CHTAANSotiJRkOPmpbTTI+q65uYO6Sny1xiygHFN9LY=; b=ft3qqnXb5Le8YycBVZvo8Cf+IzxyV+hIrrkdasw25AxyWfbI4P68VlQRdXOqCWmQyz LXqBwYwGhA0l1/t3n4A09CFgni+PF+dkn8alwFpOyHk9Inp+7z+RVhWVk46K5z/OviCu 3HI14GM8JeZH0DyDh6qRuyc0wc0RLBxoUoqrA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:in-reply-to :message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:date; b=YOUnpovbwn7UhU3HLnCuyvOjnK2z43826vsbHEK+5waEZVaWn+JgoVEVXdidlaZzlN GSbE2vVReGAZCJcPz0EzYTy1rg20lt6kTIE9pBtTq/coRLy1g8ElvBJM2EaI5QlCht3I bj4uET4ZlZYPLwvNl505kPwLDXAQ+Piju1g38= Received: by 10.210.68.17 with SMTP id q17mr2092101eba.181.1224844278823; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:31:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (abwq207.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.8.240.207]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 20sm18400968eyk.4.2008.10.24.03.31.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:31:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m9OAYVtF019686; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:34:31 +0200 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id m9OAYUL2019683; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:34:30 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "Giuseppe Bilotta" writes: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Jean-Luc Herren wrote: > > If you decide against a shared repository, maybe you want to > > consider to not use ".zit.file/", but ".zit/file/" as the > > repository? This would reduce the clutter to a single directory, > > just like with ".git". And moving files around wouldn't be that > > much complicated. > > Right. I'll give that a shot. 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) By the way, it would be nice to have VC interface for Emacs for Zit... -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git