Show HN: Gitfs – mount Git repos as local folders
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Show HN: Gitfs – mount Git repos as local folders
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Re: Show HN: Gitfs – mount Git repos as local folders
#2Is this an alternative to cloning a repo and pushing changes or is this supposed to be used as a full filesystem? I don't quite understand the blurb.
Re: Show HN: Gitfs – mount Git repos as local folders
#3This might be nice for places where people can't figure out git.
I hope it puts "update" as the commit message ;)
Re: Show HN: Gitfs – mount Git repos as local folders
#4Is this an alternative to cloning a repo and pushing changes or is this supposed to be used as a full filesystem? I don't quite understand the blurb.
Hi. I'm one of the authors of GitFS! It is supposed to work as a fully-fledged filesystem.
Do you have in mind a particular use case?
Re: Show HN: Gitfs – mount Git repos as local folders
#5This might be nice for places where people can't figure out git. I hope it puts "update" as the commit message ;)
Yeap!
Check https://github.com/vtemian/gitfs-demo/commits/master and you can see how the commit messages look
Re: Show HN: Gitfs – mount Git repos as local folders
#6Why would somebody use such a file system? To make life easier when working with configuration files?
I wish they also described their motive for creating it.
Re: Show HN: Gitfs – mount Git repos as local folders
#7Why would somebody use such a file system? To make life easier when working with configuration files? I wish they also described their motive for creating it.
A developer or sys admin would use it to keep track of changes a site owner would do via ftp/sftp. We made it for this specific reason. Track everything! :)
Re: Show HN: Gitfs – mount Git repos as local folders
#8Is this an alternative to cloning a repo and pushing changes or is this supposed to be used as a full filesystem? I don't quite understand the blurb.
Hi. I'm one of the authors of GitFS! It is supposed to work as a fully-fledged filesystem. Do you have in mind a particular use case?
No, I think the question is, what do you as an author of the software have in mind as a particular use case? Some examples of why someone would use this would be great.
Re: Show HN: Gitfs – mount Git repos as local folders
#9This might be nice for places where people can't figure out git. I hope it puts "update" as the commit message ;)
Yeap! Check https://github.com/vtemian/gitfs-demo/commits/master and you can see how the commit messages look
How do you get commits with more than one file changed? I assume a commit happened every time there was a write to a file on disk which can't occur simultaneously. Do commits just happen on some time interval?
Re: Show HN: Gitfs – mount Git repos as local folders
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeap! Check https://github.com/vtemian/gitfs-demo/commits/master and you can see how the commit messages look
How do you get commits with more than one file changed? I assume a commit happened every time there was a write to a file on disk which can't occur simultaneously. Do commits just happen on some time interval?
The files are queued and are committed in batches after some idle time.