Re: A VFS layer - was: SCM ideas from 2003

Jon Seymour gmail.com> writes: [...] > It seems to me that file-orientation is here to stay and it would be > really cool to layer some kind of virtual filesystem over the git > repository so that different trees become transparently accessible via > different branches of a file system, e.g.

A VFS layer - was: SCM ideas from 2003

On 19 Apr 2005 08:31:42 +0300, Marc Girod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "KS" == Kevin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > KS> "what's so special about files ?" where the author suggests that > KS> existing SCM systems are so blinded by the tradition of file > KS> orientation that they can't

Re: SCM ideas from 2003

> "KS" == Kevin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KS> "what's so special about files ?" where the author suggests that KS> existing SCM systems are so blinded by the tradition of file KS> orientation that they can't see that there might be alternatives. Correct: file orientation is eventually

SCM ideas from 2003

I just stumbled across this page, dated 2003, which foreshadows a couple of the decisions Linus has made for git: http://ydirson.free.fr/en/software/scm/vc.txt Here are the parts that particularly caught my eye: "what's so special about files ?" where the author suggests that existing SCM syst