has anyone made a read-only FUSE filesystem for a git repository where every commit is a folder and the folder contains all the files in that commit?
the idea is that you could just run `cd COMMIT_ID` and poke around instead of checking out the commit
and maybe the branches could be symbolic links to the commit folders?
guys this is such a fun idea I cannot believe people are in the replies trying to explain to me why they think it is impractical
the whole point of computers is to do impractical things and see what happens
seems like the answer is yes!
- https://github.com/fanzeyi/giblefs (fuse implementation in rust where every commit is a folder)
- https://orib.dev/git9.html (for plan 9)
would love to hear about any others
ok I got extremely nerd sniped and made my own version of this “filesystem where every git commit is a folder" thing https://github.com/jvns/git-commit-folders
I wrote a FUSE version and an NFS version that I think will be easier for mac users to use. it definitely does not work on windows.
it probably has about 5 million bugs but it seems to kind of work
@b0rk Brilliant!
Exposing things as filesystems rocks! It becomes ridiculously useful to be able to do things like grep and write scripts against stuff like service discovery, ldap/ad, or weird metrics exporting (jmx, snmp, etc).
"Everything SHALL be a file” :-)
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