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by nailer 6344 days ago
I always wonder if Linus might integrate his projects more. Note:

* Git - a filesystem based revision control system by Linux

* BtrFS - a filesystem with writable snapshots, integrated into a kernel controled by Linus

Might ever integrate themselves more. Ie, SVN commands actually using the underlying filesystem to store the data.

Git would therefore:

* Be compeletely transparent to applications and users, storing updates and comments in the filesystem as snapshots and extended attributes

* Be able to revision control binary objects without needless storage of duplicated data.

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It doesn't sound like it would be that hard to combine the two. Both are open source projects ...