[9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
i'm playing with hgfs. here are some first observations/thoughts. for a given repository foo, if the repository mounted on /n/hg, had a hierarchy like: /n/hg /ctl /versions /foo it would feel more natural if i could do: % cat /n/hg/versions # list versions ... %

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread lucio
it would be nice to map as many hg/git operations to file operations as possible. for the rest providing special files (ctl, versions, etc) and directives don't seem out of place. I've been thinking about combining synthetic file servers with shell functionality, where Plan 9's rc (but

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:36 AM, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: ... It would be nice if you didn't hijack other people's threads. -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread lucio
It would be nice if you didn't hijack other people's threads. Oh, dear, I apologise! L.

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
Skip Tavakkolian skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com wrote: % cat /n/hg/versions # list versions ... % echo version rev1 /n/hg/ctl # pull + update -r rev1, etc. % ls /n/hg/foo # list of rev1 files % echo version rev2 /n/hg/ctl % ls /n/hg/foo ... # list of rev2 files, etc What would be the

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Aram Hăvărneanu ara...@mgk.ro wrote: Skip Tavakkolian skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com wrote: % cat /n/hg/versions # list versions ... % echo version rev1 /n/hg/ctl # pull + update -r rev1, etc. % ls /n/hg/foo # list of rev1 files % echo version rev2

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
thinking about the idea of a revision control file system brings me back to some work i followed by brian stuart. his θfs has a object store. the object store allows arbitrary metadata and object size. the ℙ snapshot device could be modified to take snapshots based on an arbitrary reference

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread ron minnich
has anyone looked at camlistore as a starting point? Written in Go, which means it works on Plan 9. ron

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com: has anyone looked at camlistore as a starting point? Written in Go, which means it works on Plan 9. That means it works on *one architecture* of Plan 9. khm

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread lucio
in any event, back to the subject at hand. this in-depth discussion of various revision control systems seems to assume that revision control is the key issue. Much as I agree with you that clear objectives are essential to any type of success (a tautology if ever there was one - what do

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:17 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: has anyone looked at camlistore as a starting point? Written in Go, which means it works on Plan 9. No, it doesn't. I uses FUSE for God's sake. Camlistore is also 65kLOC -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread ron minnich
I'm beginning to remember why I redirected this list to /dev/null. I think I'm going to resume. Enjoy your ever-shrinking place in the world, folks; it's clear that you enjoy it. It's also clear that nobody else cares any more. ron

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com: I'm beginning to remember why I redirected this list to /dev/null. I think I'm going to resume. thanks for letting us know Enjoy your ever-shrinking place in the world, folks; it's clear that you enjoy it. It's also clear that nobody else cares any

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
I'm beginning to remember why I redirected this list to /dev/null. I think I'm going to resume. Good riddance, we don't want your insults here. We don't want your nsec, and we don't want your GPL. Enjoy your ever-shrinking place in the world, folks; it's clear that you enjoy it. It's also

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
Who exactly do you think are the we that you are talking about? Lucho On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Aram Hăvărneanu ara...@mgk.ro wrote: I'm beginning to remember why I redirected this list to /dev/null. I think I'm going to resume. Good riddance, we don't want your insults here.

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
you're entitled to your opinion, but please don't speak for everyone. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Aram Hăvărneanu ara...@mgk.ro wrote: I'm beginning to remember why I redirected this list to /dev/null. I think I'm going to resume. Good riddance, we don't want your insults here. We

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Latchesar Ionkov lu...@ionkov.net: Who exactly do you think are the we that you are talking about? All the unpopular, irrelevant people who regularly force poor Ron to loudly, manually pipe this list into /dev/null instead of just unsubscribing. khm

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
c'mon. there's no point to namecalling. - erik

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Bakul Shah
On Thu, 22 May 2014 09:17:18 PDT ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: has anyone looked at camlistore as a starting point? Written in Go, which means it works on Plan 9. I will take a look at it but Ron, if you are still on this channel, may be you can describe how it will help here? [And,

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
So that means you and Aram. It is interesting that unpopular and irrelevant very often comes in combination with loud. Lucho On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Kurt H Maier k...@sciops.net wrote: Quoting Latchesar Ionkov lu...@ionkov.net: Who exactly do you think are the we that you are

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Bakul Shah
On Thu, 22 May 2014 12:41:05 +0200 =?UTF-8?B?QXJhbSBIxIN2xINybmVhbnU=?= ara...@mgk.ro wrote: What would be the point of this? Once you have a version (revision) you can just bind the subtree where you want it. I don't see the point in having this special switching code inside hgfs. Plan 9

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
camilstore's storage idea is interesting, but i admit i've only played with it and briefly. i think you're referring to the fact it keeps all versions that are put into it and the fact that anything stored can have any metadata (json) associated with it. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:17 AM, ron

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread hiro
To get ahead in the game of bullying always single one person out, don't try to even do two at the same time or they might team up. It is interesting that unpopular and irrelevant very often comes in combination with loud. No.

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2011-06-27 Thread hiro
Thanks, I love such toys :)

[9fans] hgfs

2011-06-26 Thread cinap_lenrek
wrote a hgfs for plan9 that gives you read only access to all revisions in a mercurial repository. it provides a directory per revision. the revision directory can use decimal revision number: 123/ or f32acf03d/ this is a first step towards native tools for plan9 to work with mercurial. in

[9fans] hgfs

2011-06-26 Thread cinap_lenrek
forgot the mention some bits: hgfs gives you one directory per revision. a revision dir looks like this: cpu% cd /n/hg/99 cpu% ls -l d-r-xr-xr-x M 37623 stanley.lieber hgfs 0 Apr 17 22:19 changes d-r-xr-xr-x M 37623 stanley.lieber hgfs 0 Apr 17 22:19 files --r--r--r-- M 37623 stanley.lieber

Re: [9fans] hgfs?

2011-05-27 Thread Bakul Shah
On Thu, 26 May 2011 20:16:11 EDT erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: A project idea: murkyfs -- browse not just your own mercurial repo and also the one you cloned from! Extra points for mapping hg commands like push/pull/merge/diff in a useful way. Another idea is a better

Re: [9fans] hgfs?

2011-05-27 Thread erik quanstrom
if i'm missing why this is an interesting idea, i'd love to know what i don't see. I partially agree with you; hence the suggestion about editor integration. But I am wondering just how far this model can be pushed or extended seamlessly. Features such as atomic commits, changesets,

Re: [9fans] hgfs?

2011-05-27 Thread Lucio De Re
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 08:21:14AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: do you propose being able to do this at any level in the fs heirarchy, or just at the root? if not just at the root, how is a namespace constructed? I'm going to throw a small pebble into this pond, in case it goes overlooked:

Re: [9fans] hgfs?

2011-05-27 Thread Bakul Shah
On Fri, 27 May 2011 08:21:14 EDT erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: Features such as atomic commits, changesets, branches, push, pull, merge etc. can be useful in multiple contexts so it would be nice if they can integrated smoothly in an FS. Example uses: - A backup is

Re: [9fans] hgfs?

2011-05-27 Thread erik quanstrom
- a timemachine like program to animate changes in a file (or even a bird's eye view of changes in an entire repo). Scroll backward/forward in time. history(1). - erik

[9fans] hgfs?

2011-05-26 Thread Bakul Shah
Typically the way to do this is to create your own public fork, and then send a pull request to the maintainer of whoever you forked from since hg has the distributed model. A project idea: murkyfs -- browse not just your own mercurial repo and also the one you cloned from! Extra points for

Re: [9fans] hgfs?

2011-05-26 Thread simon softnet
do you even realize that plan 9 / unix is supposed to be an IDE? On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Bakul Shah ba...@bitblocks.com wrote: Typically the way to do this is to create your own public fork, and then send a pull request to the maintainer of whoever you forked from since hg has the

Re: [9fans] hgfs?

2011-05-26 Thread Iruatã Souza
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Bakul Shah ba...@bitblocks.com wrote: Typically the way to do this is to create your own public fork, and then send a pull request to the maintainer of whoever you forked from since hg has the distributed model. A project idea: murkyfs -- browse not just your

Re: [9fans] hgfs?

2011-05-26 Thread erik quanstrom
A project idea: murkyfs -- browse not just your own mercurial repo and also the one you cloned from! Extra points for mapping hg commands like push/pull/merge/diff in a useful way. Another idea is a better integration of acem + hg.  [One side effect using Eclipse is I have been