Re:Git is the next Unix
by bayareaguy on Saturday February 02, 2008 @12:48AM
(#108254)
Git is good at what it was designed to do (manage and distribute changes to source code) but that's not what most people need. Non-programmers are a lot better off with simpler things like OSX Time Machine and iDisk.
That said there seems to be a lot of effort duplicated at the file-system level and at the version-control level. I hope file systems of the future will expose nicer api's (e.g. change logging) to help version-control systems become simpler and more efficient.
Re:Git is the next Unix
by jsnx on Sunday February 03, 2008 @05:06PM
(#108788)
One could also develop a separate kernel API for version control. Filesystems without version control would just have null operations in this API, while filesystems with version control would root around in their database for the change information.
That said there seems to be a lot of effort duplicated at the file-system level and at the version-control level. I hope file systems of the future will expose nicer api's (e.g. change logging) to help version-control systems become simpler and more efficient.