Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives

Hubert Chan
2004-09-02T18:42:34Z

>>>>> "John" == John Stoffel <stoffel@lucent.com> writes:

V13> I believe you mean something simillar to:
V13> file1.txt;1
V13> file1.txt;2
V13> file1.txt;3 (yeap, it's VMS)

[...]

John> In any case, while I do like this feature, I'm not sure how we
John> would cleanly implement this inside the unix namespace, or if
John> inside a new namespace, how that new namespace would be joined
John> with a standard Unix one.

file1.txt/..version/1

or, for those version control systems like svn and arch where the
version number refers to the version of the whole project tree:

project/..version/1/file1.txt

You could even export strange things like:

project/..by-date/2004-08-24/file1.txt

to see what the file looked like on August 24. Or

project/..diff/3-1/file1.txt

to see a diff between version 3 and 1.

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