[Nix-dev] nixfs

[Nicolas Pierron]

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Christof Douma
<christof-nix at douma.eu.org> wrote:
> Marc Weber schreef:
>  > Is the chance of having duplicated files bigger in the nix store than
>  > on a filesystem in general?
>  > Doesn't this take much time to compare each file against all others to
>  > find a minimal diff?
>  > So the basic question is : What does similar mean?
>
>  My mind makes it: a new version of a packages. Like the pre-build
>  packages can be send by binary diffs. Instead of applying these to the
>  store, nix could simply give this diff to nixfs, which would apply the
>  patch to the base package at runtime.

That sounds like a job for a versionning tool, have you take a look at "gitfs"?

-- 
Nicolas Pierron