From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20141118021856.83745B82A@mail.bitblocks.com> References: <20141118021856.83745B82A@mail.bitblocks.com> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 22:16:34 -0500 Message-ID: From: minux To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11c11b50c0ef9f05081985d0 Subject: Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2ac9c19a-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a11c11b50c0ef9f05081985d0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Nov 17, 2014 9:29 PM, "Bakul Shah" wrote: > 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. basically, this is how git works. Anyway, mapping a git repository to venti on the fly seems like a fun project. --001a11c11b50c0ef9f05081985d0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


On Nov 17, 2014 9:29 PM, "Bakul Shah" <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
> 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.=C2=A0 Mapping to a filesystem view would require some
> thought but I think most of the key pieces are already in
> place.

basically, this is how git works.

Anyway, mapping a git repository to venti on the fly seems l= ike a fun project.

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