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Author Topic: git9 - A Git file system for Plan 9  (Read 5681 times)

Tuxman

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git9 - A Git file system for Plan 9
« on: April 13, 2019, 02:32 PM »
Now this is awesome. Finally, Git has at least one advantage over Mercurial.  :-[

https://bitbucket.or...db/git9/src/default/

(Basically, you'll "mount" your Git repositories.)

Ironically, the repository is hosted via Mercurial...

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Re: git9 - A Git file system for Plan 9
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2019, 02:12 AM »
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Re: git9 - A Git file system for Plan 9
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2019, 02:14 AM »
Which part?

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Re: git9 - A Git file system for Plan 9
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2019, 04:40 PM »
I'm not sure. I know nothing beyond wikipedia about Plan 9 (have seen parts of the film though!  ;D). Do you use it and in what way will this new development make it better to use?

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Re: git9 - A Git file system for Plan 9
« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2019, 06:02 PM »
I play with some of its parts, currently investigating if it is a good idea to run Plan 9 as my backup server.

There was no Git client for Plan 9 before. Now there is one, and it perfectly fits Plan 9's general concept: Everything is a file system. Even more so than on Unix: Even sockets are a file system - in fact, you can even import a different Plan 9 computer's network stack right into your machine. Admittedly, most of it only makes sense if you have more than one Plan 9 computer.  :D