Linus Torvalds: “I'm happily hacking on a new save format using ‘libgit2’”
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Re: Linus Torvalds: “I'm happily hacking on a new save format using ‘libgit2’”
#2Worked on a project a few years ago where we needed distributed sync capability. Using git (or bazaar or mercurial) was one of the options - store everything in it versus a database. Interesting to see the same thought "coming back".
Re: Linus Torvalds: “I'm happily hacking on a new save format using ‘libgit2’”
#3From the comments (Tristan Colgate) :
"XML is what you do to a sysadmin if waterboarding him would get you fired."
Made my day :-)
Re: Linus Torvalds: “I'm happily hacking on a new save format using ‘libgit2’”
#4I don't quite get Linus' problem with XML for document markup (for anything else - config files, build scripts - sure, XML is horrible). Does anyone know any more details about what his specific gripe is? For me, asciidoc (which looks very similar, conceptually, to markdown) suffers from one huge problem: it's incomplete. Substituting symbols for words results in a more limited vocabulary, if that vocabulary is to remain at all memorable.
Sure, XML can be nasty, but thats very much a function of the care taken to a) format the file sensibly b) use appropriate structure (i.e. be as specific as necessary, and no more).
Re: Linus Torvalds: “I'm happily hacking on a new save format using ‘libgit2’”
#5I just realized that Linus' posts are the only reason I ever go to Google Plus.
Re: Linus Torvalds: “I'm happily hacking on a new save format using ‘libgit2’”
#6he talks about a save file format, not a file system. or do we have different concepts of "file system"?
Re: Linus Torvalds: “I'm happily hacking on a new save format using ‘libgit2’”
#7why do you need to view filesystem and make it readable for humans, you would interact it via commands "ls" or some gui
git as the basis of filesystem is interesting, hope we don't need to manually make branches and commits to use it
Re: Linus Torvalds: “I'm happily hacking on a new save format using ‘libgit2’”
#8Title is entirely misleading. Tech support! TECH SUPPORT!!
Re: Linus Torvalds: “I'm happily hacking on a new save format using ‘libgit2’”
#9I don't really understand what he's talking about here (my ignorance, not his fault.) Is it something like https://camlistore.org/ that is a content addressable (the git part) datastore?
Re: Linus Torvalds: “I'm happily hacking on a new save format using ‘libgit2’”
#10I don't quite get Linus' problem with XML for document markup (for anything else - config files, build scripts - sure, XML is horrible). Does anyone know any more details about what his specific gripe is? For me, asciidoc (which looks very similar, conceptually, to markdown) suffers from one huge problem: it's incomplete. Substituting symbols for words results in a more limited vocabulary, if that vocabulary is to re…
This link needs to be posted again and again and again.
I'm sure quite a lot of people will easily recognize it. :^)
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