Re: [9fans] VCS on Plan9

[Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 5:01 PM Steve simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> re: VCS -vs-dump
>
> I always planned to add code to fossil to allow members of (say) the 'dump' group to trigger fa fossil to venti dump at arbitrary times.
> If with this it would be trivial to have a 'release' rc script which could save a log message and trigger a dump.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is just an `echo` into fossilcons,
isn't it? `fsys main snap -a` or something like it?

> I know this is not really a VCS but the ability to get back to an atomic set of files representing a release would help a lot IMHO.

I could see the utility in that, but at this point, a repo in some
modern VCS that contained the source combined with a snapshot of the
release contents (containing binaries and so on) would be better,
IMHO.

Ironically, this came full circle for me a decade or so ago at Google.
I was explaining Venti to someone and they said, "why did they write
that? Why not just write to git?" I had to explain that Venti predated
`git` by several years. Kids these days!

        - Dan C.

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