Next gen: instant clone of any repository, however big (a lazy working copy) issue #132 open andymccall opened this 11 days ago · 0 comments

Andy's next-gen list (2026-10-24), first of five, recommended first. oxy clone of the Linux kernel and work within a second: the working copy is a lazy mount of the state (flow-casfs, FUSE), the file listing at once and each file's content fetched from the hub on first read, checked against its hash. Status and diff stay fast because oxy knows which files were written. Needs: a writable overlay over the read-only state, fetch-on-read from the hub's object store with prefetch hints, offline behaviour (what is read is kept), and a fallback to a full checkout where FUSE is missing. Measure against git on the VS Code and Linux histories on Earth (memory import-benchmarks).