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From: Steve Kilbane <steve@whi...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Python filesystem 
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 07:32:52 +0000

> CVS or a derivative thereof, should be a filesystem. It seems to me that
> something like ftpfs is very close to what a CVS fs could be. Assuming a
> pserver is managing the sources, the cvsfs connects and shows the user the
> source repository.  The user can copy files out of and into of the
> filesystem (causing checkouts and checkins).  I think starting very simple
> (just checkins and checkouts) would still be very useful.

Quite probably, although I think you'd want to run through the basic set of
operations and work out how they'd function, before doing anything at all.
To work as a file server, it would need to support the common activities in
a natural manner. Otherwise, users would have to keep returning to the usual
interface, and would be frustrated.