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Have you ever read this HN comment from 2007 before? [0]

> I have a few qualms with this app...

Different paths towards the same outcome should multiply, so we can increase the surface area of the bandages on the different pain points along the way.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Snarky drive-by comments like this are the worst part of HN.

That works well for small repos or a few repos but if you want to find all cc files, at all release branch's, in your entire company and check for some exploit it is helpful to have a VFS. Makes it so you could also support N SCMs through one API. You just need to make a new VFS.

Stop for a moment and consider what the tradeoffs of that could be and why it might not work well in some situations.

Just………clone the repo?

Yeah good point! Though I was also thinking about the ability to easily create/edit/delete gists, by means of file system operations. For example, it would be pretty cool if you could create a directory in some “gists” mount point, and have it transparently create a gist for it. Then, as you add/edit/delete files in that directory, those changes are reflected in the gist’s repo.