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Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by cma on Friday July 29, 2022 @02:42PM (#32280381)
Isnt there FuseFS for that? It can show the gconf registry as a file tree, allowing you to use tools like recursive diff etc. https://metacpan.org/release/LSIM/GConf-FS-0.01

Something flexible like FuseFS is sorely missing on windows, the stuff google drive had to do creating a new letter drive is pretty gnarly.

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Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by pie_flavor on Friday July 29, 2022 @02:51PM (#32280478)
You mean https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/projfs/projec...?
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Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by cma on Friday July 29, 2022 @03:36PM (#32280944)
Interesting, I hadn't seen that. Did Google Drive go with the virtual drive letter thing mainly for backwards compatibility to older windows?
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