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Episode 538: Roberto Di Cosmo on Archiving Public Software at Massive Scale

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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What Is the Graph of a File System?

When you look at your file system, any usual file system, you have a directory inside a directory. And the same directory appears in two other directories and we have the same name. So technically, it is a graph. It is more than a tree. Every time you mark a version, really, it's a commit. This adds a node to the graph point into the status of the source code in the particular moment,. The status directory tree. so this is actually the graph we are talking about.

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