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Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 13:41:54 +0300 From: Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com> To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@...il.com>, Andreas Ericsson <ae@....se>, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@....de>, Phillip Susi <psusi@....rr.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Jing Xue <jingxue@...izenstudio.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, git@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: git guidance Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote: > On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:56:21 +0300, Al Boldi said: > > It probably goes without saying, that gitfs should have some basic > > configuration file to setup its transparent behaviour > > But then it's not *truly* transparent, is it? Don't mistake transparency with some form of auto-heuristic. Transparency only means that it inserts functionality without impeding your normal workflow. > And that leaves another question - if you make a config file that excludes > all the .o files - then what's backing the .o files? Those data blocks > need to be *someplace*. Maybe you can do something ugly like use unionfs > to combine your gitfs with something else to store the other files... Or any number of other possible implementation scenarios... > But at that point, you're probably better off just creating a properly > designed versioning filesystem. But gitfs is not about designing a versioning filesystem, it's about designing a transparent interface into git to handle an SCM use-case. Thanks! -- Al -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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