On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:43 PM, ron minnich<[email protected]> wrote: > > git is a file system. It contains many different roots, which they > call branches. Branches have 'scores'. I'm not the first person to > notice a passing similarity to venti in that way. > > In venti, we can see every version of a file system, and even mount > it, given a score. That's why things like yesterday are nice. > > To see a tree from git, I have to checkout a branch. I only have one > branch checked out at a time. To see difference to a branch, I have to > do this: > git-diff > > I thought the intent of this project was to allow my to say, e.g.: > mount /srv/git /tree > cd /tree > diff brancha branchb
Agreed. But you should realise that so far, you have only been talking about a read-only usage of Git history. The interesting part is to devise a way of adding to it. I don't think I know good FS metaphors for all the things I need there. Thanks, Roman. P.S. Not that the r-o shouldn't be implemented... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Plan 9 Google Summer of Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/plan9-gsoc?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
