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Gabriel Arazas 213f54961f Fix literature notes
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The Software Heritage Filesystem (SwhFS): Integrating Source Code Archival with Development

  • primarily features swh-fuse, a utility allowing to mount software from Software Heritage to your local environment quickly
  • it is based from POSIX filesystems built with FUSE framework; as such it does not require root privileges to use it
  • it exposes the global merkle tree as a filesystem along with its metadata, archive, etc.
  • it can interact with the objects in the merkle tree such as the source code files, commits, snapshots, etc.
  • the tool is essentially a FUSE adapter to Software Heritage API
  • future considerations include for mining software repositories and integrations with Git making commands work inside of the filesystem

features:

  • the tool lazily loads the archives to save bandwidth and disk space
  • caches for performance especially with how bad remote filesystems can be
  • reduces redundancy by using symlinks extensively