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On Jun 23, 2009, at 3:26 PM, "Federico G. Benavento" <[email protected] 
 > wrote:

>
> I have a particular question, in the end are you going to be able to  
> use
> rm, cp, etc?
>
> why not just "touch file" instead "echo add" ?

Agreed, you really should be able to interact with the synthetic more  
naturally for these sorts of commands.

>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Manzur<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> To Roman:
>>
>> I want to know yours and others' opinion about organizing files.
>> As I said above currently adding file1 to the repository is done by
>> (we're located in dir1/dir2 directory):
>>
>>         echo dir1/dir2/file1 > ../../ctl
>>
>> This isn't good, especially without tab completion. The problem is
>> with the location of ctl file: user should specify either absolute or
>> relative path.
>>
>> I've two solutions to that problem:
>>
>> 1) Create file server's special files in each subdirectory of the
>> <files> directory. So in the result we will have ctl, data in each
>> directory.
>>
>> 2) Make files under <files> directory read-only. Interpret data
>> written to the files under <files> dir as git commands. For example,
>> we could simply say
>>
>>               echo add > file1
>>
>> to add file1 to the repository. The same could be done with other  
>> file-
>> specific git commands. Commands that aren't file-specific can be
>> executed via ctl and data files.
>>
>>
>> To Ron:
>>
>> I agree with you that viewing branches would make git more  
>> convenient.
>> But decision was made towards saving on extra space needed for each
>> extracted branch.
>> But in my case it's possible to do it through extraction branch on  
>> the
>> fly.
>> I'll add that feature soon.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your interest.
>> Manzur
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Federico G. Benavento
>
> >

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