Version control second coming

Post by teiferer » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 6:31 AM UTC

raegis wrote: post #11

Now that the revolution has apparently started, does anyone know of a version control system which uses encrypted storage? (I'm not concerned about performance, for I will use it for small projects only.)

Post by mpweiher » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 6:41 AM UTC

ithkuil wrote: post #14

bolangi wrote: post #2

Dreaming of "virtual filesystems everywhere". Hmm, sorta sounds like Plan 9. Great to have an inside view of wrangling technologies for these behemoth data sets.

I wonder if we're doing virtual filesystems wrong. There is a good reason why traditionally filesystem access was mediated by the OS layer, but there are many use cases where you just want to give processes a different view of what they already can access and it could be done as a library in the same userspace process. However, for that to work across all the processes in a session we'd need a standard way to install…

   hello ← file:hello-world.txt 

   hello ← https://example.com/hello-world.txt
   hello ← env:GREETING
   hello ← var:greeting         //   hello defaults to var:hello

   scheme:greeter ← ref:https://example.com/ asScheme.
   hello ← greeter:hello-world.txt

   scheme:greeter ← ref:file:./ asScheme
   hello ← greeter:hello-world.txt

   scheme:greeter ← ref:https://example.com/ asScheme.
   scheme:greeter ← #MPWRelativeScheme{ base: 'https://example/com' } → #MPWURLSchemeResolver{} 

   scheme:img ← #MPWImageDecoderStore{} → scheme:greeter 
   helloPic ← img:wave.png 

Post by akshitgaur2005 » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 6:42 AM UTC

black_knight wrote: post #6

bolangi wrote: post #2

Dreaming of "virtual filesystems everywhere". Hmm, sorta sounds like Plan 9. Great to have an inside view of wrangling technologies for these behemoth data sets.

Plan 9 had such a powerful model for networked systems using these virtual file systems, it sounds like a fairytale! Oh, want to use that other machine as a gateway? Just mount its /net. Oh, want to route audio through another machine? Just mount their soundcard into your /dev. Oh, your machine is too puny to do the task at hand? Just run “cpu thebigmachine” which transplanted your entire environment over there (all…

Post by Kwpolska » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 6:47 AM UTC

forrestthewoods wrote: post #4

bolangi wrote: post #2

Dreaming of "virtual filesystems everywhere". Hmm, sorta sounds like Plan 9. Great to have an inside view of wrangling technologies for these behemoth data sets.

> virtual filesystems everywhere Please universe I beg you. Git is incredibly mediocre. But it's all most people know. It's a version control tool that can't handle binary files; and no GitLFS does not count. The end result is a version control tool that is unable to actually version control all the things you need for a project. This results in a Meta VCS layer where a ton of critical assets are stored in Docker fil…

Post by bitwize » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 6:55 AM UTC

monster_truck wrote: post #28

rjsw wrote: post #18

People complained about having to use ClearCase back then, it wasn't just the price that was wrong with it.

I helped swap a mess of ClearCase & Subversion over to git (early 2010s). What a fucking cursed piece of software! Will admit it got exactly one thing right, which could absolutely justify everything else (including the price) for a long time: Software Bill of Materials, which is non negotiable in a lot of more serious/heavily regulated development contexts That still didn't excuse the hacked together pile of ruby sc…