Re: [9fans] Sources Gone?

["Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>]

On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 14:33 -0800, Russ Cox wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Roman V. Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:
> I don't know how well Git handles this; I apologize for that.

Git doesn't get annoyed. In fact, with things like git stash you can
even test incremental changes to the merge without loosing the state
of your actual filesystem tree.

> I think using venti as a backend for Git would buy you
> very little.  Git already does a good job of managing its
> blocks.

Perhaps, I haven't made myself clear. What I asked you about
had nothing to do with Git. I was suggesting that letting two
venti systems efficiently trade blocks would be a desirable
addition to the system.

There was a question on this list not long time ago whether
getting access to venti blocks of the sources would be possible.
The answer at the time was "no". This is understandable since
the stock venti doesn't really offer any kind of security
mechanism for doing that.

However, the very fact that somebody else asked that question suggests
that the feature is not useless one.

Thanks,
Roman.