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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] FS to skip/put-together duplicate files
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:57:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <96b8da467e55e95edef11a3f7693f9e3@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <087b06bcf86bfd29df76102d98e19b1f@coraid.com>

> does anyone have an example of a case where compression and uniquing are required?

the compression is nice to have of course but the uniqing is very
neat. I have always though of it as plan9's answer to CSV et al.

When you do a release of a software package you copy the files to
a new directory with the name of the release (the equivilent of 
tagging your release in CVS) - and continue working. this tne takes
up the space for the directory entries and all releases are always
available. branching is trivial (dircp) only a pretty merge tool
is missing - I have diff3 from edition7 in my contrib area
but some sort of interactive differencting GUI tool would be very
hand somtimes.

have I drifted off topic I wonder...

-Steve


  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-14 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-10 11:39 Enrico Weigelt
2007-08-10 11:51 ` Gabriel Diaz
2007-08-10 12:26 ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-13  3:32   ` YAMANASHI Takeshi
2007-08-13 12:01     ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-13 13:43       ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-08-13 13:52         ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-13 14:40           ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-08-14 13:16     ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-14 13:57       ` Steve Simon [this message]
2007-08-14 14:13         ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-14 15:02           ` David Leimbach
2007-08-14 16:18       ` Uriel
2007-08-14 16:25         ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-15  0:27           ` Uriel
2007-08-15  0:42 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2007-08-15  0:47 ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-15  0:49 YAMANASHI Takeshi

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