From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:28:51 EST." References: <20141118021856.83745B82A@mail.bitblocks.com> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 19:08:33 -0800 From: Bakul Shah Message-Id: <20141118030833.8749EB827@mail.bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2ac5b51e-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:28:51 EST erik quanstrom wrote: > On Mon Nov 17 21:27:01 EST 2014, bakul@bitblocks.com wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 01:14:22 CST Jeff Sickel wrot > e: > > > > > > I look forward to Go's fifth version control system. Hopefully that > > > one will be concise, written in Go, and not gimmicky with cartoon > > > advertising everywhere. > > > > I don't know about Go (the Go guys are probably already > > suffering from a massive VCS fatigue), but if you want to play > > with this idea, there is venti! Vac can take a previous score > > to do incremental archiving. If you add sepcial blocks that > > store two parent scores + some metadata, it can represent a > > merge point. Mapping to a filesystem view would require some > > thought but I think most of the key pieces are already in > > place. I have a whole bunch of paper projects based on venti! > > if you want to do paper projects, why not start with something simple and fast? It is more a case of "I have this neat toy. What games can I play with it?" than anything else! More the protocol than the disk layout.