Hi! 2008/6/3 Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At 8:55 PM +0300 6/3/08, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote: >> >> On Sunday 01 June 2008, Matthew Dillon wrote: >> [...] >> > * Add a new utility called 'undo' which makes use of HAMMER >> > capabilities to retrieve prior versions of a file, even if that >> > file has been deleted. >> > >> > This utility can dump all prior versions of the file, generate a >> > history of transaction ids associated with the file, has a >> > 'quick diff' relative to the most recent change, and can also >> > generate diffs for all versions of the file. >> >> It seems to me this utility is a bit misnamed; while it can be used to >> undo >> changes to a file, it works more like cvs log. Suggestions for a better >> name >> collected on irc include >> >> fslog/filelog >> hammer log (it _is_ hammer-specific, right?) >> hist (a la http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man1/hist.html)
hvs log|diff|etc? > > I do think it is worthwhile to think about what this new command is > really doing for users, and come up with a naming scheme which seems > reasonable. > > Based on what you've said above, it almost sounds like a limited > source-control system specific to HAMMER file systems. To me, that > suggests something like 'hammervs', which could have sub-commands of > 'hammervs revert', 'hammervs diff', 'hammervs log', etc. > > Obviously "hammervs" is too long, but I'm not trying to suggest the > specific name so much as suggesting how to look at the set of > features that this will provide. maybe 'hfsvs' ? > > In any case, this sounds like it would be very cool to have, and this > could generate a lot of interest in the HAMMER fs. > > -- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Dennis Melentyev
