Re: A VFS layer - was: SCM ideas from 2003

Jon Seymour <jon.seymour <at> gmail.com> writes: 
[...]  

It seems to me that file-orientation is here to stay and it would be 
really cool to layer some kind of virtual filesystem over the git 
repository so that different trees become transparently accessible via 
different branches of a file system, e.g.: 
    /mnt/gitfs/working                  # some kind of writeable virtual 

directory over the git cache 

    /mnt/gitfs/c157067185209b50b350571fe762c2740ea13fc1  # read-only tree of 

commit c157... 

    /mnt/gitfs/5b53d3a08d64198d26d4f2323f235790c04aeaab # read-only tree of 

comit 5b53... 
 
Ah, you mean wrapping the libgit in a FUSE plugin and let 
the Linux pagecache/dentry cache do the caching of on-demand 
inflated blobs and indexes? Would the hash be the "inode number"? 
 
 
--  
Stephane