From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60712050556q7a8848f9p6d6aa32152ae8a37@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 07:56:58 -0600 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Removal of .i files from sources? In-Reply-To: <20071205080810.GC1228@hermes.my.domain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_764_1599887.1196863018884" References: <20071203222511.GA1228@hermes.my.domain> <14045.1196790323@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu> <20071205080810.GC1228@hermes.my.domain> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1206f25a-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_764_1599887.1196863018884 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Dec 5, 2007 2:08 AM, Christian Kellermann < Christian.Kellermann@nefkom.net> wrote: > * Dave Eckhardt [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. ------=_Part_764_1599887.1196863018884 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline

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.
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