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pijul (successor to darcs) looks very interesting (I like the darcs model of using patches rather than the entire source tree as the object being versioned) ...
by isr 5y ago
pijul (successor to darcs) looks very interesting (I like the darcs model of using patches rather than the entire source tree as the object being versioned) ...
What would be REALLY interesting would be someone taking a snapshot-happy copy-on-write filesystem (btrfs, nilfs2), and putting a version control layer on top.
Sort of like the old clearcase versioning filesystem (used that 20 years ago ...)
- pmeunier 5y ago> someone taking a snapshot-happy copy-on-write filesystem (btrfs, nilfs2), and putting a version control layer on top. That's actually what Pijul does under the hood, its CoW filesystem is called Sanakirja (Sanakirja is a bit more than just a filesystem). (I'm one of the authors).
- isr 5y agoFascinating, I had no idea. I blithely assumed that pijul was just a rewrite of darcs. Off to check on pijul again ... :-)
- pmeunier 5y agoIt is absolutely not a rewrite of Darcs, the main difference being that Darcs works with transforms only, whereas Pijul has points between the transforms, allowing it to scale to much larger repos.