But versionning everything is not really great idea. Probably 90% of your files are static. Archives, Media, LIBs. Not worth versioning. But for that 10%, having any (D)VFS is handy. Thats why I wrote DOT for myself, to handle that niche need to version every document I work with.

Its private for now, but here is printout of help: http://borg.uu3.net/~borg/?dot

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denkmoon 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

why not version control those things? if they're static, there's no changes so version controlling them has little cost. maybe existing tools aren't adequate for this conception of the world, but I don't think that's a good reason not to work towards "version control everything"

	▲	Borg3 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Cost of keeping all data (up to +100%). If they dont change, no point of really versioning them. Backup of those is simple either, whatever syncing software (incremental). Docs that often change, its completly different story. I love VCS like features where I can slam 'dot status' to see whats going on, commit when I feel I need snapshot, sync to whatever device I want. And because I run DVFS I dont even bother with backups because I have multiple copies of repo with entire history.

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XorNot 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The bigger issue is that most of the files you're likely to capture in "version everything" are just noise.

Disk space is far from cheap when the value of what's being stored is basically zero.

You can version everything today with something like ZFS snapshoting - and very quickly realize hundreds of gigabytes of noise aren't worth keeping.