From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Sources Gone?
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:33:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd6fe68a0901291433h1e57aacbsfe38693c8a3eb075@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233263396.4412.164.camel@goose.sun.com>
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Roman V. Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:
> "trees" tend to be highly overloaded, but if you refer
> to the filesystem hierarchy as seem by open, then the
> above statement, if applied to Git, is misleading.
What I mean is that if there is some file in the "repository"
and I have a long-standing change to it (perhaps I have
edited a template config file), the revision control systems
tend to get annoyed that you're not checking that change back in.
Mercurial, for instance, requires you to say -f on hg merge
if you have pending changes. And I think that might even
have disappeared in a recent version: you just can't merge
anymore in an "unclean" repository.
I am not talking about trees as trees of revision history;
I just meant the local file system.
I don't know how well Git handles this; I apologize for that.
I think using venti as a backend for Git would buy you
very little. Git already does a good job of managing its
blocks.
Russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-29 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-23 11:56 Gregory Pavelcak
2009-01-23 14:15 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-23 14:54 ` lucio
2009-01-23 15:09 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-27 22:59 ` Uriel
2009-01-27 23:32 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-28 0:58 ` Kenji Arisawa
2009-01-28 5:06 ` Uriel
2009-01-28 11:46 ` Iruata Souza
2009-01-28 12:41 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-01-28 13:53 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-29 12:12 ` Uriel
2009-01-29 13:37 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-29 16:45 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-29 16:15 ` ron minnich
2009-01-29 16:34 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-29 16:30 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-29 17:18 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-29 17:30 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-29 17:43 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-29 17:39 ` gas
2009-01-29 21:09 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-29 21:42 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-29 23:05 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-29 23:49 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-30 0:28 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-30 4:46 ` [9fans] Venti and version control (Was: Sources Gone?) lucio
2009-01-30 5:18 ` [9fans] Sources Gone? lucio
2009-01-31 13:45 ` Bruce Ellis
2009-01-31 18:12 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-31 18:44 ` Bruce Ellis
2009-02-02 22:33 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-02 22:43 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-02 23:26 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-02 23:39 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-03 10:04 ` Richard Miller
2009-02-03 4:23 ` lucio
2009-02-03 5:23 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-03 5:47 ` lucio
2009-02-03 12:54 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-03 13:38 ` roger peppe
2009-02-03 14:01 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-03 16:13 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-02-03 16:22 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-03 16:51 ` roger peppe
2009-02-03 16:55 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-03 17:30 ` Brian L. Stuart
2009-02-05 1:24 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-03 17:42 ` lucio
2009-02-03 17:40 ` lucio
2009-02-03 17:51 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-04 8:40 ` sqweek
2009-02-04 16:40 ` [9fans] Some arithmetic [was: Re: Sources Gone?] Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-02-04 17:10 ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-02-04 17:49 ` hiro
2009-02-05 11:19 ` Dave Eckhardt
2009-02-05 17:38 ` Russ Cox
2009-02-05 17:41 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-05 18:08 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-05 18:22 ` Micah Stetson
2009-02-05 18:29 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-05 18:31 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-05 18:32 ` hiro
2009-01-30 4:25 ` [9fans] Sources Gone? lucio
2009-01-29 22:33 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2009-01-29 22:58 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-29 23:06 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-29 12:13 ` kokamoto
2009-01-27 23:11 ` Patrick Kristiansen
2009-01-28 0:11 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2009-01-28 5:55 ` lucio
2009-01-29 18:00 erik quanstrom
2009-01-29 18:00 erik quanstrom
[not found] <2b0250f2fe16a645a4641825c2f33741@quanstro.net>
2009-02-03 17:27 ` lucio
2009-02-05 1:20 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
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