From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:28:51 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20141118021856.83745B82A@mail.bitblocks.com> References: <20141118021856.83745B82A@mail.bitblocks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] github.com/9fans + plan9port on git Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2ac0dab2-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon Nov 17 21:27:01 EST 2014, bakul@bitblocks.com wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 01:14:22 CST Jeff Sickel 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