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I think you are correct. It would not be a huge stretch to turn a snapshotting file system into a VCS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning_file_system htt
by deepspace 5y ago
I think you are correct. It would not be a huge stretch to turn a snapshotting file system into a VCS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning_file_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning_file_system
The IBM/Rational Clearcase version control system is an example of building a VCS on top of a versioning file system (MVFS), though MVFS uses an underlying database instead of a copy-on-write snapshot mechanism. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/about-multiversion-file-system-mvfs https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/about-multiversion-file-sy...