Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

On Mon Nov 17 21:27:01 EST 2014, bakul@bitblocks.com wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 01:14:22 CST Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com> wrote:
> >
> > I look forward to Go's fifth version control system.  Hopefully that
> > one will be concise, written in Go, and not gimmicky with cartoon
> > advertising everywhere.
>
> 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. I have a whole bunch of paper projects based on venti!

if you want to do paper projects, why not start with something simple and fast?

- erik