From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git guidance
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 22:04:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712072204.48410.a1426z@gawab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3prxiu3oo.fsf@roke.D-201>
Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com> writes:
> > For example:
> >
> > echo "// last comment on this file" >> /gitfs.mounted/file
> >
> > should do an implied checkpoint, and make these checkpoints immediately
> > visible under some checkpoint branch of the gitfs mounted dir.
> >
> > Note, this way the developer gets version control without even noticing,
> > and works completely transparent to any kind of application.
>
> Why not use versioning filesystem for that, for example ext3cow
> (which looks suprisingly git-like, when you take into account that
> for ext3cow history is linear and centralized, so one can use date
> or sequential number to name commits).
>
> See GitLinks page on Git Wiki, "Other links" section:
> http://www.ext3cow.com/
Sure, Linus mentioned the cow idea before in this thread, but you would still
need a few hacks to get some basic Version Control features.
> Version control system is all about WORKFLOW B, where programmer
> controls when it is time to commit (and in private repository he/she
> can then rewrite history to arrive at "Perfect patch series"[*1*]);
> something that for example CVS failed at, requiring programmer to do
> a merge if upstream has any changes when trying to commit.
Because WORKFLOW C is transparent, it won't affect other workflows. So you
could still use your normal WORKFLOW B in addition to WORKFLOW C, gaining an
additional level of version control detail at no extra cost other than the
git-engine scratch repository overhead.
BTW, is git efficient enough to handle WORKFLOW C?
Thanks!
--
Al
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-07 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-29 15:52 git guidance Jing Xue
2007-11-29 16:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-01 6:50 ` Al Boldi
2007-12-04 22:21 ` Phillip Susi
2007-12-07 17:35 ` Al Boldi
2007-12-06 18:24 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-07 18:55 ` Al Boldi
2007-12-06 20:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-07 4:37 ` Al Boldi
2007-12-07 8:40 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-07 10:53 ` Al Boldi
2007-12-07 11:47 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-07 19:04 ` Al Boldi [this message]
2007-12-07 19:36 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-12-07 22:07 ` Luke Lu
2007-12-08 4:56 ` Al Boldi
2007-12-08 5:16 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-12-08 10:41 ` Al Boldi
2007-12-08 11:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-07 12:30 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-07 21:17 ` david
2007-12-07 22:00 ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-12-06 21:46 ` Phillip Susi
2007-12-08 6:33 ` Martin Langhoff
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-11-27 22:33 Tilman Schmidt
2007-11-27 22:54 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-11-27 22:55 ` Kristoffer Ericson
2007-11-27 23:52 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-11-28 0:43 ` Kristoffer Ericson
2007-11-28 0:49 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-11-28 12:49 ` Al Boldi
2007-11-28 13:45 ` Rogan Dawes
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711281545170.27959@racer.site>
2007-11-28 17:14 ` Al Boldi
2007-11-28 18:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-28 18:30 ` Al Boldi
2007-11-28 18:41 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-29 5:27 ` Al Boldi
2007-11-29 12:57 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-11-28 13:38 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-11-28 21:20 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-11-28 11:23 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-11-28 12:31 ` Kristoffer Ericson
2007-11-27 23:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-11-28 15:15 ` Dave Quigley
2007-11-28 15:57 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-11-28 16:37 ` Dave Quigley
2007-11-28 19:10 ` willem
2007-11-28 19:18 ` Dave Quigley
2007-11-28 23:22 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2007-11-29 12:45 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-11-29 13:03 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2007-11-28 7:41 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2007-11-29 12:51 ` Tilman Schmidt
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