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

the main reason I've found this "all your git commits are folders" feature to be useful is for searching past code: I can run `grep someFunction branch_histories/main/*/commit.go` to find the old version of someFunction I deleted. There are other ways to do that in git but this is easier.

or if I want to just quickly look at a file on another branch to copy a line from it, I can run `vim branches/other-branch/go.mod`

curious about other use cases

(from https://github.com/jvns/git-commit-folders)

@b0rk I wasn't going to mess with this until I had time this weekend, but now I wanna try it.

You've killed my productivity for at least this morning, I hope you're happy!

@b0rk I gotta say, I love the code here.

You're using FUSE the same way I would use, say, meters if I were making a unit conversion app. "I'll just convert everything to meters, and then to the destination unit!" only it's "everything is fuse".

At least, that was my impression from a quick glance through the code. This is a beautiful, horrible hack.

@b0rk . . .ohhhhhhh. 😁

It's aliiiiiiive!