On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/23/08, Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The principle is extremely simple: when you choose to start tracking a >> file with Zit, >> >> zit track file >> >> Zit will create a directory .zit.file to hold a git repository >> tracking the single file .zit.file/file, which is just a hard link to >> file. > > Why not use one .zit repo and track each file on each own branch?. So your proposal is to have a single .zit repo which is actually a git repo and where each additional tracked file becomes its own branch, and zit would take care of switching from branch to branch when zit commands are called? I think this solution would have a number of problems, apart from being generally quite messy. First of all, moving a file and its history somewhere else means toying around with the history of a much wider repo, whereas the current approach would mean just moving the .zit.file dir together with the file (modulo hardlinks). Non-linear histories for a single file would be more complex to handle, too. And publishing just the history of one file would be damn complex. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta -- 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