[FoRK] Git is the new UNIX (?)

[Jeff Bone]

Check this out:

   http://www.advogato.org/person/apenwarr/diary/371.html

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Nb., git also captures a lot of the fundamental ideas that were the  
genesis of e.g. Deepfile.  I've been hip to this "immutable content  
blobs and hashes" notion of primitive filesystem concepts for a long  
time, at least since Andy Tannenbaum's Amoeba's filesystem, the  
"Bullet Filesystem," was based on them.  (Never mind the  
reinforcement from Oceanstore and, to a lesser block-level degree,  
Venti.)  (But what about arbitrary file metadata, I wonder...?)

I hadn't really considered git in this light, though.  Frankly I'd  
sort of avoided it, given its reputation for quirkiness.

Will have to go take another look, I guess...


jb