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In your design, can I go to the other "branch/folder" and look around / copy over that binary to my current "branch/folder" in a file explorer without a "checko

In your design, can I go to the other "branch/folder" and look around / copy over that binary to my current "branch/folder" in a file explorer without a "checkout"?

gavinhoward 3y ago
Not in a file explorer, sadly. However, I was going to make a browser UI from the start. I could implement a branch and file explorer in that UI, which would allow you to do the same thing. Would that be good enough or not? I'd love to know because I want to build this tool for humans first.
- UweSchmidt 3y ago
  Probably, yes. Anything that does not require thinking in current Git-logic. I don't mind Git that much in everyday work but if something nicer came along, that would be great. I do think that Git is very well established, and it would probably take a major player, maybe Azure or AWS with a cloud-based IDE to change paradigms.
  - gavinhoward 3y ago
    Thank you. I just realized something: maybe I can make it so regular file explorers work. I had intended to use something like Fossil's checkouts. I could formalize it; each branch the user wants could be a separate directory in the repo directory. While I hate that, people seem to like it. I think I will do it. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.
    - UweSchmidt 3y ago
      Good luck!
    - joshka 3y ago
      It's not impossible - https://github.com/g2p/git-fs https://github.com/g2p/git-fs did this a long while back and https://github.com/presslabs/gitfs https://github.com/presslabs/gitfs did something similar too.