Re: First round of UGFWIINI results

also sprach Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] [2009.02.17.1747 +0100]:

a while ago I announced the UGFWIINI contest, a glorious battle of ideas
how to

	Use Git For What It Is Not Indended

As most of you probably did not find my blog yet, this may come as a
surprise to you, but it will not be the only surprise in this email.

A shame that I didn't see the contest start. I would have had
a number of cases to add using Git

  - to track your ~ (cf. http://vcs-home.madduck.net)
  - to track /etc (cf. http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/etckeeper/)
  - as the backend for a service like snapshot.debian.net
  - as a mail store and complete replacement of IMAP

anyway, enter me for round 2!!

Avery Pennarun explains his endeavor of tracking windows with
git... "If I get a virus, I can 'git revert' it."
http://alumnit.ca/~apenwarr/log/?m=200901#21
 
Sverre remarks: "It even beats the way we use Git to track the
MSys installation in msysgit.git..."

This is also related to Martin Krafft's idea to sort of replace
the Debian packaging management by using Git, but...

I had this idea? Well, maybe something related: vcs-pkg.org, which
is about using distributed VCS for distro package maintenance. More
Debian-specific is my goal to replace source packages with services
that build straight from trees identified by Git tags, which I've
written a bit about here:

  http://madduck.net/blog/2005.08.11:rcs-uploads/

This is up high on my list of todos, so expect more on this topic
soon.

Anyway, thanks Johannes for the fun! :)

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