From: Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] CMS/MMS (VCS/SCM/DSCM) [was: syscall 53]
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 22:23:01 -0700 [thread overview]
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i was thinking more in terms of having a git client (fs) on plan9 and using
any number of public git servers. i'm looking at hgfs now; perhaps it
already does all that's needed.
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com>wrote:
>
> On May 21, 2014, at 7:13 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 21 May 2014 09:56:26 PDT Skip Tavakkolian <
> skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> i like git. as it is a kind of archival file system, one should be
> able to
> >> build a plan9 file system interface for it.
> >
> > Have you looked at porting git to plan9? 178K lines of *.[ch].
> > 20K lines of shell scripts (+ 100K+ lines of test scripts).
> > Also python and perl scripts.
>
> As we’ve managed to migrate towards the topic of version control
> systems, I have to add: I don’t like git. Maybe it’s because
> I’ve used darcs and hg so much more, or maybe it’s just that I
> don’t like the way git is used in many situations. But mostly
> I think it’s because I’ve found that many of the github projects
> lose sight of what I think is the more important portion of
> the source history: the history and development process itself.
>
> At the base level I find that sources and sourcesdump are much
> more accessible than many of the DSCMs (e.g., darcs, git, hg)
> out there. Yes it’s great to use hg to snapshot state and
> allow easy migration across various systems, but it still
> clutters the model.
>
> One of the advantages of having a real archival store, like
> Venti, is that it changes the conceptual level of how you deal
> with metadata about a project. When the default is everything
> is saved and you can manipulate the namespace to represent
> various portions of the history then you don’t get caught
> up in all the branching, rebasing, queues, merges, and other
> general contortions that would make us happy to warp back in
> time to an early copy of Dr. Dobb’s Journal of Computer
> Calisthenics & Orthodontia when the future looked bright and
> we really could do anything with 8 bits. Sure working with
> an automatic snapshot system can be a headache at times, but
> it’s one of those that easily passes, not like sitting down for
> a [git] root canal because your tooth has been rotting to the
> core while you worry about the configuration for the hottest
> continuous integration system with a butler name that shows we
> really didn’t learn anything about the 18th or 19th century
> transitions to the modern age...
>
> Back on topic: be careful of the dependencies required to
> get a system bootstrapped. The FreeBSD community took BIND
> out of the default system and re-wrote a new basic resolver
> because the BIND 10+ versions would require packaging Python
> into the core distribution. There’s no reason for
> bringing in more than is necessary to build, and putting a
> dependency on Python would significantly increase the build
> time and total lines of code to maintain just to have hg.
> Darcs is in the same boat in that you’d have to keep a version
> of Haskell in the system. Git is the closest as it’s just C,
> sort of: it’s a whole lot of code. But why would you want to
> bring in “178K lines of *.[ch], 20K lines of shell scripts, 100K+
> lines of test scripts” and have to lug in the massive payload
> of Python and Perl just to make it functional?
>
> With a payload that large, it would take all the booster
> rockets [money] on the planet to get it into orbit. And it
> still might break apart, fall back to Earth, and kill us in the
> process.
>
> At the end of the day, it’s the communication with people that’s
> the largest benefit. Let’s continue building systems based on the
> ideas that drew us all to Plan 9 in the first place.
>
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 107+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-17 19:11 [9fans] syscall 53 goo
2014-05-17 21:17 ` Jeff Sickel
2014-05-17 22:21 ` Jeff Sickel
2014-05-17 22:45 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-05-18 4:34 ` lucio
2014-05-18 8:29 ` David du Colombier
2014-05-18 15:28 ` Jeff Sickel
2014-05-18 15:32 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-05-18 15:34 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-05-18 15:38 ` Jeff Sickel
2014-05-18 16:03 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-05-18 22:55 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-05-19 1:54 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-19 2:27 ` Jeff Sickel
2014-05-19 4:18 ` lucio
2014-05-19 12:50 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-19 14:01 ` lucio
2014-05-19 16:24 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-19 16:54 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-19 17:16 ` lucio
2014-05-19 17:22 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-19 17:13 ` lucio
2014-05-19 17:25 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-19 19:50 ` Bakul Shah
2014-05-19 19:59 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-19 20:54 ` ron minnich
2014-05-19 21:30 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-19 21:41 ` ron minnich
2014-05-19 23:02 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-05-19 23:06 ` andrey mirtchovski
2014-05-19 23:12 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-05-19 23:17 ` andrey mirtchovski
2014-05-20 0:09 ` Jeff Sickel
2014-05-19 21:34 ` Anthony Sorace
2014-05-20 14:04 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-20 16:41 ` ron minnich
2014-05-20 17:14 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-20 18:32 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-05-20 19:49 ` ron minnich
2014-05-20 19:54 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-20 20:06 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-05-21 10:23 ` hiro
2014-05-20 20:33 ` Jeff Sickel
2014-05-21 1:37 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-05-21 15:40 ` lucio
2014-05-21 16:25 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-21 16:56 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-05-21 20:05 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2014-05-22 0:13 ` Bakul Shah
2014-05-22 3:25 ` [9fans] CMS/MMS (VCS/SCM/DSCM) [was: syscall 53] Jeff Sickel
2014-05-22 5:03 ` lucio
2014-05-22 5:07 ` lucio
2014-05-22 13:29 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-22 13:50 ` lucio
2014-05-22 5:11 ` Bakul Shah
2014-05-22 5:26 ` lucio
2014-05-22 12:57 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-22 13:43 ` lucio
2014-05-22 13:57 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-22 5:28 ` lucio
2014-05-22 5:36 ` lucio
2014-05-22 6:00 ` Bakul Shah
2014-05-22 6:18 ` lucio
2014-05-22 12:45 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-22 20:05 ` Bakul Shah
2014-05-22 20:11 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-23 20:07 ` Steve Simon
2014-05-22 9:52 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2014-05-22 10:29 ` lucio
2014-05-22 10:46 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2014-05-22 13:03 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-22 5:23 ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2014-05-22 5:47 ` lucio
2014-05-22 12:49 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-22 7:49 ` Alex Jordan
2014-05-22 12:49 ` Riddler
2014-05-22 3:43 ` [9fans] syscall 53 Kurt H Maier
2014-05-22 5:12 ` lucio
2014-05-22 16:15 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-05-22 5:36 ` Bakul Shah
2014-05-22 10:50 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2014-05-21 17:01 ` lucio
2014-05-21 17:41 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-21 19:08 ` lucio
2014-05-21 20:36 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-22 4:46 ` lucio
2014-05-22 13:18 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-22 13:39 ` lucio
2014-05-22 14:22 ` Riddler
2014-05-22 4:54 ` lucio
2014-05-22 13:07 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-21 1:21 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-05-21 15:36 ` lucio
2014-05-21 15:57 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-21 17:03 ` lucio
2014-05-21 16:50 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-05-21 18:02 ` hiro
2014-05-20 17:05 ` Bakul Shah
2014-05-20 17:28 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-19 17:26 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-19 17:29 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-19 19:15 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2014-05-19 19:44 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-19 20:51 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-20 3:52 ` cinap_lenrek
2014-05-19 4:15 ` lucio
2014-05-18 0:34 ` erik quanstrom
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