Vlad Temian - gitfs - building a filesystem in Python

Vlad Temian - gitfs - building a filesystem in Python
[EuroPython 2015]
[23 July 2015]
[Bilbao, Euskadi, Spain]

gitfs is an open-source[1] filesystem which was designed to bring the
full powers of Git to everyone, no matter how little they know about
versioning. A user can mount any repository and all the his changes
will be automatically converted into commits. gitfs will also expose
the history of the branch you’re currently working on by simulating
snapshots of every commit.

gitfs is useful in places where you want to keep track of all your
files, but at the same time you don’t have the possibility of
organizing everything into commits yourself. A FUSE filesystem for git
repositories, with local cache.

In this talk we will take a look at some of the crucial aspects
involved in building a reliable FUSE filesystem, the steps that we
took in building gitfs, especially in handling the git objects (http
methods we have used for it and also we will share the most important
lessons learned while building it.

The prerequisites for this talk are:
A good understanding of how Git works
Basic understaning of Operating Systems concepts