Hi, This is just a general idea which struck me:
With translators it would be easily possible to hide version tracking activity
by just stacking a version tracking translator over some directory.
A way to control that would then be, to have the translator create virtual
files for control. Something like
repo_dir/
.add/
.commit
.pull
.push
.remove/
.update
file1
file2
# Add files
echo * > .add
# commit
echo "Commit message" > .commit
# update to some revision
echo 123 > .update
Would easily be possible.
There wouldn't be any visible storage dir, since the directory would just be
shown as normal file dir with some extra non-standard files.
Can a translator change how cp works, so that copying such a dir would clone
the repo and layer a new translator upon the target (if the target is on a
Hurd)?
Thanks for reading the strange idea until the end.
I hope you enjoyed it. :)
It's just an idea, but it might provide one more illustration what the Hurd
could make possible/easier.
Best wishes,
Arne
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