Am I missing something or why does the author repeatedly misspell —recursive as —recusive?
Interesting, as he manages to spell it correctly in text.
Version control without Git
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Re: Version control without Git
#12Am I missing something or why does the author repeatedly misspell —recursive as —recusive?
File operations that let the command recuse itself from doing them? Or just bad copy-pasta.
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#13Coming from RCS, CVS, SVN to Git, git is a game changer - yes everyone knows that.
But what was astonishing me most was the version system build into the VMS OS file system.
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#14Now we can finally rewrite git ourselves ;)
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#15Coming from RCS, CVS, SVN to Git, git is a game changer - yes everyone knows that. But what was astonishing me most was the version system build into the VMS OS file system.
File versioning was in BBN's TENEX, which evolved into TOPS-20 ("TWENEX") for DEC's DECSYSTEM 20 computers.
File versioning is also part of pathnames in Common Lisp, although it (the versioning, not Common Lisp) is really a fossil at this point.
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#16Title is horribly incorrect. Simulating git would be more appropriate. I expected this to be a look at other version control systems around today. It's yet another 'let's recreate git from scratch, kinda' post.
> I expected...
In fairness, it very clearly describes what it is doing in the initial lines: “In this tutorial I’ll try to describe how git works”. So it isn't intending to suggest an alternative for git, but just to show what git does for you and, to an extent, how.
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#17Title is horribly incorrect. Simulating git would be more appropriate. I expected this to be a look at other version control systems around today. It's yet another 'let's recreate git from scratch, kinda' post.
The article isn't suggesting using this for anything real. It's just using tools that have existed a long time, like diff and patch, to show some of the concepts of version control.
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#18Re: Version control without Git
#19You can simulate git via: mkdir v2 ; cp -rp v1 v2
I think a closer example at the filesystem level would be rsnapshot alpha rsnapshot [1] uses hard links when it can to create a delta of changed files. Reverting can be done with rsync or cherry picking files. git blame would have to be done via something like auditd and syslog and nowhere near as easy as using git. I use rsnapshot to back up my git repos in the event they get corrupted. [1] - https://linux.die.net/m…
Probably rsync is smarter than my cp -rp example.
Folk who are downvoting my original comment really don't understand how git version controls at the atomic level.
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#20A long time ago before git I've casually run into quilt[1]. Not really immediate but if you don't like git may be nice to use. On IETF[2] there's a quick tutorial too.