From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>, 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: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 13:41:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712081341.54589.a1426z@gawab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7135.1197090987@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:56:21 +0300, Al Boldi said:
> > It probably goes without saying, that gitfs should have some basic
> > configuration file to setup its transparent behaviour
>
> But then it's not *truly* transparent, is it?
Don't mistake transparency with some form of auto-heuristic. Transparency
only means that it inserts functionality without impeding your normal
workflow.
> And that leaves another question - if you make a config file that excludes
> all the .o files - then what's backing the .o files? Those data blocks
> need to be *someplace*. Maybe you can do something ugly like use unionfs
> to combine your gitfs with something else to store the other files...
Or any number of other possible implementation scenarios...
> But at that point, you're probably better off just creating a properly
> designed versioning filesystem.
But gitfs is not about designing a versioning filesystem, it's about
designing a transparent interface into git to handle an SCM use-case.
Thanks!
--
Al
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-08 10:45 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
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 [this message]
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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