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> 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 t
by 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.