Re: CVS update: subversion/subversion/libsvn_fs TODO

Brian Behlendorf <brian@collab.net> writes:

> On 13 Oct 2000 jimb@tigris.org wrote:
> > Long-term repository readability strategy.
>
> Good ideas. I've also been kinda thinking that the fs-on-a-Bdb concept
> may prove alien to people used to a tree full of ,v files, and thought
> that a shell that 'mounted' that fs and allowed one to at least navigate
> (cd, ls, etc) the hierarchy would probably be appreciated. I'm too timid
> to suggest they also be able to do mv, cp, and vi, someone else can. =)

Totally! At the Red Hat company meeting, I gave a presentation on all
this; there were some kernel hackers who wanted to try to turn the SVN
filesystem into a true filesystem. So you could do the above with
bash. There'd just be a magic operation called "commit".
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:11 2006