On Dec 5, 2007 2:08 AM, Christian Kellermann <Christian.Kellermann@nefkom.net> wrote:
* Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu> [071204 18:55]:
>
> It sounds like it's time for my occasional commercial for divergefs,
> a file system which lets you layer arbitrary changes on top of a
> read-only file system (it even handles deletions).
>
> you can build whatever you want.  And you can resume your work the
> next day with the same command.

Thanks for pointing that out to me! It is indeed a nice little tool.
This should get into the default installation!

Kind regards,

Christian

I've not tried it for this purpose but it seems like it'd make a really good way to get patches generated.