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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:45:44 -0700
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Subject: Re: [9fans] simple venti demo:
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On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:50 AM, dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com> wrote:

> Venti would make a great backend for Git.

I guess you could do this; it'd be interesting to do something more in
keeping with the Unix model than git is.

Create repo:
dd -if etc. etc.

checkout
unvac

commit
vac etc.


compare two trees:
vacfs score1 /tree1
vacfs score2 /tree2
diff-somehow /tree1 /tree2

It seems to me that all the things that are done with git today, with
all its special purpose commands, might be done with a Unix tool
approach. Plus, some of the git commands are pretty interesting and
might be useful if they could be applied to other contexts.

ron