Re: Versioning File Systems?

Lars Marowsky-Bree (lmb@suse.de)
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:27:58 +0200


On 2002-04-18T08:20:25,
Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> said:

> It's certainly a fun space, file system hacking is always fun. There
> doesn't seem to be a good match between file system operations and
> SCM operations, especially stuff like checkin. write != checkin.
> But you can handle that with

Either that, or heuristics - file not written to / opened for writing in x
minutes -> commit.

That would actually be pretty interesting because it might also allow you to
back out editor screwups ;-)

However, deducing change sets is more difficult.

Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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