Git is the next Unix (2008)

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8 points·icebraining··7 comments

I am still waiting for someone to come up with a CAS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage) file system like git.

There are some projects in this area, like:

http://git-annex.branchable.com/

http://camlistore.org/

What exactly did you want out of a CAS file system?

Space savings at the moment. I tend to accumulate a lot of files which do not change over time (ebooks, other documents etc) and sometimes I have multiple redundant copies (often with different names). A CAS file system could replace any duplicates added to the file system with a hard link to a preexisting copy and help me save space.

yes, we remember the year 2008, here's the thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=108172 and another one from 2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2320846

are we running in circles?

http://i.imgur.com/X9Cvh.png

I suggest that we as a community (in unison) immediately and consistently begin downmodding this sort of negative and unproductive metadiscussion on HN whenever it appears.

Atwood (I believe it was, or maybe Spolsky) has already written about what a cancer community metadiscussion can be. It would be a valuable addition to our unwritten community standards to actively discourage it on HN.

This isn't fucking Reddit. I haven't seen this before. If you personally have, move on to the next link and stop ruining the SNR for other users of this site. If it was relevant to HN then, it may well be relevant to HN now.

and the longest meta comment here is yours.

cancer? really, no need to get so butthurt.

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