+1   (and I'm bumming I only get a "1" for my +)

This would be a really sweet addition to fossil. Consider caching under
/var/tmp or something so that performance is decent.

I'm not sure you'd be able to deliver a precompiled binary with
dependencies on fuse but being able to compile in this feature would be
very appreciated.



On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Andy Goth <andrew.m.g...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> What I most look forward to in libfossil is the potential to expose a
>> repository, including all its yummy history, into a Unix filesystem.
>>
>
> I don't think you need libfossil to do this.  Looking at the "hello world"
> example of fuse at
> http://fuse.sourceforge.net/doxygen/hello_8c.html it seems to me that we
> ought to be able to add a command (linux only) like, perhaps,
>
>     fossil fuse $MOUNT_DIR
>
> and do everything that we need within the standard Fossil executable.  I
> propose adding this command in a new source file "src/fuse.c".  (NB:  The
> foregoing is written without ever before used fuse or the fuse API, so
> perhaps it is more difficult than I imagine.)
>
> The "fossil fuse" server would need to maintain a cache of recently
> accessed manifests and of check-in names, for efficiency.  But the "/doc"
> URL already does that, so there is precedent.
>
> Maybe several different ways to access files:
>
>       hash/$HASH/$filename
>       tag/$TAG/$HASH/$filename
>       date/$YYYYMMDD/$HHMMSS/$HASH/$filename
>
> In all of the above, $HASH would be the first 10 characters of the SHA1
> hash for the check-in if the hash is unique, or as many additional
> characters as are needed to make it unique.  We can think about ways of
> adding support for wiki, events, and tickets later.
> --
> D. Richard Hipp
> d...@sqlite.org
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