[Owncloud] Re: Ideas for improving owncloud

[Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho]

On Tuesday 01 March 2011 13:27:23 Debayan Banerjee wrote:
> On 24 February 2011 04:30, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
> Also git does not have an API/library so you will have to call it on
> the command line all the time.

Glip may help in this case: http://fimml.at/#glip

> > I think that it will be necessary to modify the way that git works
> > because it was created to provide versions for the whole repository
> > (like SVN) and not per file (like CVS) as used in other services.
> > Anyway, this can simplify everything.
> 
> I dont think this is a big problem. One can use git log filename to
> find out the revisions which touch a particular file, or use git blame
> to see changes line by line. One can even implement a timelapse viewer
> on git much like
> http://filehost.perforce.com/downloads/media/tlv/tlv.html. A user can
> selectively overwrite a file at a particular version and we re-commit
> this in the background. All these are issues for the developer, not
> the user.

You are right.
Thanks for commenting. :-)

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Tulio Magno