Pgit: I Imported the Linux Kernel into PostgreSQL
45 points by ImGajeed76 4 days ago | 4 comments
gurjeet 2 hours ago
Technically correct title would be: s/Kernel into/Kernel Git History into/
replyJodieBenitez 2 hours ago
Read the title and immediately thought "what a weird way to solve the performance loss with kernel 7..." The mind tricking itself :)
replytombert 56 minutes ago
If I recall correctly, the Fossil SCM uses SQLite under the covers for a lot of its stuff.
replyObviously that's not surprising considering its creator, but hearing that was kind of the first time I had ever considered that you could translate something like Git semantics to a relational database.
I haven't played with Pgit...though I kind of think that I should now.