FUSE Filesystem for Bzr

Kevin Kubasik kevin at kubasik.net
Tue Apr 1 13:50:18 BST 2008


I'm downloading the code now to play around with it, but it seems like
this has a lot of potential for some slick and painless versioned
Documents directories. Or even that holy-grail of a truly versioned fs
that everyone seems to be chasing after. ;) Either way, very cool.

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Guillermo Gonzalez
<guillo.gonzo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Wichmann, Mats D
>  <mats.d.wichmann at intel.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >  > I was impressed with the speed. The tree caching means that after a
>  >  > short pause to load up the revision tree you get fast access to the
>  >  > sub-directories etc. from then on. (I was testing bzr.dev)
>  >  >
>  >  > FUSE isn't cross-platform, but I wonder if there is anything we
>  >  > can build on top of this. It would be useful anyhow for using tools
>  >  > that don't understand bzr with it.
>  >
>  >  I'm wondering if this might be an easier way to integrate verion
>  >  control into IDE systems - Eclipse, etc.  The Eclipse bzr plugin
>  >  (with apologies to the developers who are doing crucial work) has
>  >  always seemed quite awkward to me.
>  >
>
>  Mats,
>   When I started with the eclipse plugin (I think this apply to all
>  other IDE), I evaluated FUSE as a possibility, but the main problem I
>  found is that FUSE don't work on Windows :-(, and all the mayor IDE
>  do. But for the *nix world is a perfect fit :)
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  --
>  Guillermo
>
>



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