Re: [uml-user] cow files are version control systems

[Jeff D. <jd...@ad...>]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 11:38:48PM +0100, Nic James Ferrier wrote:
> If cow files were just a little bit more portable it would be possible
> to do version control with them.
> 
> This would be neat. Especially for complex software systems. It would
> integrate the OS with the version control.
> 
> eg: need a particular version of a particular library for your app? No
> need to add build time checks anymore. Just start version controling
> the entire install image.
> 
> Are there any ideas about how cow files can be made more portable,
> more tolerant of underlying fs changes?

Portable == you can change the backing file?

I think that's pretty hopeless.

				Jeff