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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:57:43 +0100
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] FS to skip/put-together duplicate files
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> 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