HG Filesystem: Re: Backwards compatibility (was Re: how can you tell =?iso-8859-1?q?you=09have=09merged=3F?=)

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Freitag 12 September 2008 01:54:43 schrieb Matt Mackall:
> All quite doable. In fact, with FUSE you can do it in userspace, in
> Python. But I'm not sure what the advantage is: most of the interesting
> SCM commands (commit, diff, status, log) don't have natural filesystem
> analogs. The ones that do (mv, cp) are fairly infrequent.

You could provide virtual files which you can use for these commands. 

For example a "diff" file which (when opened) always contains the output of 
"hg diff". 

Best wishes, 
Arne
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