This is just to announce the release of a simple chronological versioning script using git as a back end. I wrote this basically for my personal use, and its a very simple script that I don't expect any more development on it (except minor bugfixes). I'm just making this generally available in case anyone else finds what is does useful. (I _believe_ it now deals with cases of vanishing and reappearing files correctly in all cases, but I may have missed some cases.)
From the man-page:
chronoversion is a simple python script which attempts to use the git content tracker to provide chronological snapshots similar to Plan 9's venti filesystem. The two differences are that, being based on git, it isn't a filesystem in the sense of needing kernel support to gain access to the data (so it can be used on systems where you can only install userspace programs) and it allows programatic decisions about what to snapshot, rather than recording everything into the snapshot. It also allows all the git functionality, eg, git-daemon network access, git-diff, etc, to be used on the database of snapshots. chronoversion has been designed so that, if desired, different areas of the user's filespace can be stored in different .git databases with their own snapshotting rules. This might be useful to, eg, track both work-restricted and personal files on the same machine. (It merely allows this, making no judgement if this is a good thing to do.) It can be downloaded (at least currently) from http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~sis05dst/chronoversion.tgz If you have any comments or improvements feel free to email me at david DoT tweed aT gmail DoT com. -- cheers, dave tweed__________________________ david DoT tweed aT gmail DoT com Rm 124, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading. Details are all that matters; God dwells there, and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right. -- Stephen Jay Gould - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html