Re: [9fans] /usr/src and /usr/ports not git directories ?

Bakul Shah wrote in
 <A63BBCC9-88C8-4C00-9337-DFC62BFC4192@iitbombay.org>:
 |[-9fans, +freebsd-current as 9fans adds a reply-to: 9fans line]
 |> On Jan 23, 2025, at 3:53 PM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
 |> 
 |> I fail to see how putting code in the kernel is better than just \
 |> using got for the few people that are alergic to git. Even if it \
 |> is only 1000 lines in plan 9, but likely more in FreeBSD and by the \
 |> way not yet ported to FreeBSD. We know got can't crash the system \
 |> and is small enough to not matter, even if it isn't in the base today.
 |
 |May I suggest:
 |- always ship the *commit hash* for any release or snapshot with its \
 |base.txz
 |- src.txz as now (or add commit hash)
 |- this is enough to download a repo (1-deep or whatever), bare if src.txz \
 |was also unpacked.
 |- add a simple script to download as above.
 |- people can install whatever git client they want for further work.
 |
 |git9 doesn't require any kernel code but on freebsd you'd have to
 |use plan9port. It is far simpler but has a different interface.

I never meant to take _exactly_ the code as in Plan9 / 9front btw.
I only knew he was doing the work already, and did so over so
several years, so there is experience.  Likely the code that
accesses git's objects/ as such is pretty lean / portable.  Maybe
even he would have been willing to port the extract to POSIX so
that for example "xy HASH" searches in . and cats a blob content
to stdout, you know.
Hey, it seems his qpath() even uses Torek's hash!  Here you have
the BSD link you are missing.  :)

A nice Sunday everyone whoeever can, and others even more.

--steffen
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